On Jan 10, 2006, at 8:22 PM, John A wrote:
On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Dual-core Intel iMac...available today.
And so begins the "end-times". "Alas poor Macintosh! I knew ye
well....."
and
Actually, I'd say your fortunate! You got a real Mac, not a PC in a
Mac box....
Why the death watch and put down of the new chip? The Mac is a Personal
Computer, just like a Dell, a Gateway, the Commodore Amiga, the
Commodore Vic20, the Sinclair Z80, the Apple II and the Radio Shack TRS
80. If the changing of the processor means that you should sound the
death knell for the Mac, it should have been sounded when Apple dropped
the REAL Mac processor, the 68000 to 68040 in favor of the Power PC
series. So, by your logic, starting with the 6100, 7100 and 8100, they
were no longer Macs.
So what makes a Mac a Mac? It is the whole package of hardware and
software. Do you think that just because Apple switched the main chip
on the motherboard, they are going to turn around and start using a
generic $29.99 beige box for the computer? No, Apple will continue to
be at the forefront of design.
The first generation of intel Macs are a "quick" throw together in
today's boxes, with a few upgrades. But since the heat output of the
intel chips that Apple is using is SIGNIFICANTLY less for better
performance than a G5, what kind of cases and designs do you think that
Steve and Jonathan Ivie are going to come up with?
More importantly, what makes a Mac a Mac is the software. And there are
no roadmaps showing that Steve is going to bow down before Redmond and
beg for the OS. The Mac experience will be the same with no changes
that most end users will notice. Yes, some long time users will have
some problems with the changeover. I will be one of them. I have 100's
of documents in WriteNow and MacDraw that will I will not be able to
open on an intel Mac until I convert them. But OS X and the apps will
be just a bullet proof as they are now.
Yes, some people will probably successfully put a version of windows on
it (hey, maybe they will dump their 10.4.4 disks on ebay or the swap
list cheap!!). And yes, some enterprising hacker will probably get OS X
on a generic intel box, but big deal. Considering how many people just
buy a dell because it is cheap, regardless that they put so much
bloatware on their gaming XPS system that it will not even run Sims 2
without a call to tech support to disable some of it, I think the
actual number of lost Mac sales to this hack will be pretty small. I
think that once the Mini and iBooks (or their replacements) go intel,
more people will feel safer about buying a Mac, because it uses the
"industry standard" intel processor.
Len
--
G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and...
Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives |
-- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! |
Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html>
G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml>
--> AOL users, remove "mailto:";
Send list messages to: <mailto:g-list@mail.maclaunch.com>
To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
iPod Accessories for Less
at 1-800-iPOD.COM
Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal
www.1800ipod.com
