Hey, Rich!
On Wednesday, June 8, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Richard Starr wrote:
--- You wrote:
As it is, they're going to take an enormous revenues hit over this
decision. MANY people are going to think twice about buying a PPC
based Mac.
--
Bruce Johnson
--- end of quote ---
I can't believe I'm getting involved with this conversation, but here
goes.
Bruce, I don't know. If it looks like a Mac and works like a Mac (or
better)
why wouldn't people buy it?
When I first started with computers (aside from a brief fling with an
Apple IIe)
I had an Amiga (still do.)
Me too, though I'm in the process of mothballing my last one. All 7 of
my Amigas still work.
In those days, the format wars weren't so clear cut.
The Amiga, Mac and Atari were all based on the Motorola 68k chip and
were vastly
superior to PCs. All three had decent mouse driven GUIs and looked
pretty good
(though the early little Mac black and whites were pretty pathetic.)
The PC was
still operated on a command line with arcane DOS commands, though some
mouse
hacks were offered. Early windows were really pathetic.
The 68k gang was way ahead. You could even emulate Mac perfectly on
the Amiga
which is how I got started in Mac. For a while I had the fastest Mac
in town
because it was on an Amiga with a 50mhz 68060 board. Mac never offerd
a 68060.
Sweet! I have an 060 MarkII on my A4000, but haven't done anything
with it. I'd like to put it in my Chameleon (A3000/040) tower along
with the ethernet card, but my OSX PM is too much fun! ;^)
Point is, the arguments between platforms weren't based on which chip
was most
cool. It was the software and, (except in the case of the special
chips that
gave the Amiga a certaion edge,) and the operating system that made the
difference.
Well, in those days, the Motorola processors had better ways of doing
things, before Intel got its act together. Amiga had the best (IMNSHO)
OS then. Why didn't the money crowd figure that out? Things might be
different today.
Now, OSX is all I need/want.
And the marketing.
Bless Irving Gould and Medi Ali. NOT!
I expect that's what will happen in this case too.
Rich
I think the Apple/Intel coop will do just fine. Steve's no dummy.
He's obviously been planning for this, at least in case, for some time
now. For me, dual processor PPCs are enough, so I probably will stick
with them. But I predict Apple will do just fine on Intel (tough pill
to swallow for me!). If I'm still around in 10 years, I'll probably
get one.
- Peter
A3000 040/25 CV64 Chameleon tower - A4000 060/50 CV64 - A3000DT
030/25 x3 - A1000 x2
AmigaOne/AOS4.0 (RSN ;)
PowerMac: 1GHz DP/1GB/80GBx2/10.2.8
iMac: G3/600MHz/768MB/40GB/10.2.8
PB: 3400C/200MHz/9.1
Brother HL-1870N laser, Epson 785EPX, Epson 2450 scanner
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