On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
> Does Apple really expect them to now put their asses on the line > again to > recommend buying Mac Pros after curtailing the productive life of > expensive > machinery? Hard enough to expect in good times but in a near > depression? I'm sorry, I must have missed the line where they said "All PowerPC systems will drop dead the moment Snow Leopard is released." This doesn't curtail the productive life of their existing PPC systems. Anyone looking for performance has bitten the bullet and bought a Mac Pro. Time == Money, and hardware costs in ANY business are miniscule in comparison to wetware costs. How long would an ad agency that could get 20% improved output take to make enough money to pay for those new Mac Pros? Not very long at all. Moreover, any Art Director that maxed out on G5's after June 2005 (When Apple announced the move to Intel and the roadmap for the transition) deserves to lose their job. ANYONE in the business of speccing Mac systems should have immediately gone into a 'The only systems we buy are what we HAVE to' mode, and waited to get a clearer idea of the transition. That the developer systems that debuted at WWDC that year were amazingly fast running Intel-native software should have clued everyone in. When Apple introduced the first MacBook the next January with performance that simply smoked the best Powerbook then available, nobody should have been making massive purchases of G5's. Finally, if Apple is crazy, this is craziness the rest of the corporate world would love to catch. Their sales went down a few percent in the last quarter, true. HP's went down 16%, iirc and Dell almost 25%. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
