On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:25 AM, John Callahan wrote:
> I had three to four thousand > dollars in applications that were disabled (almost) by the change. I > purchased my Intel iMac at an Apple store and when I questioned the > salesperson as to the ability to use my PPC applications, was told > yes. As far as I'm concerned this was shading the truth and hiding > the fact that the new platform drastically altered the performance of > PPC applications. I would be interested in your opinion. Thanks What apps were messed up? Classic applications went away, but unless you were coming from a fast G5, pure PPC apps ran almost as fast on the Intel systems as they did on the previous Macs. I'm sorry you feel mislead, but... As soon as the Intel Macs were officially released, there was a great deal of testing poking and prodding done on them to see how well they worked. This information was widely reported, bith in the press and on the web. Every program-specific support list and forum I follow had a large amount of information on it pretty quickly, usually almost instantly since there had been a long NDA on the Intel switchover and a lot of the testing and tweaking had been done before the NDA expired. LOTS of developers (and here Adobe and Microsoft were the glaring exceptions) were ready on Day 1 with Universal builds of their products. Problems with some (notably Photoshop) kept people from updating to an Intel-based Mac until it was supported natively, but this was mainly people who needed the maximum performance, and were typically people who had top end maxxed out G5's already. (which many promptly dumped for Mac Pros when Adobe came out with CS3) Two points: One, like the old 'Syms' ad said...'An educated consumer is our best customer'. Two, there's a reason we still say 'Caveat Emptor' in the original latin. Buying ANYTHING a car, a computer, or a TV, it's ALWAYS better to educate yourself on the merits BEFORE you talk to a salesperson whose job description is 'Get people to buy the product' The salesperson was completely and purely truthful...you were able to run your PPC applications. Maximizing your performance is a different issue entirely. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
