Kinda depends on who "us" is. If "us" is "me" it means "we" have a much more stable, mature, closer to state of the art, well-supported development environment.
If "us" is Joe mac user on the street who plays a couple games, uses an office suite, browses the web and farts around with MIDI a bit then I don't think I'd recommend the outlay. Personally I think the stability, speed increase, and feature set are noticeable. But that may be because I'm looking for them. But I don't really care enough to evangelize (sp?). On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 11:43 PM, Bill Stephenson wrote: > >> From: "Michael P. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I thought one of the real core differences was that it was built with >> GCC 3.1 instead of the 2.95 branch. > > > What does that do for us? > >> As a developer I'm quite happy to >> have paid for the new updated tools to be so deeply integrated. I >> kinda wish they'd gotten perl 5.8 under the wire, but that wasn't a >> big >> deal to install. There's alot under the hood that really makes it >> worth the $$$. IMNSHO > > What exactly is "under the hood" that makes it worth the $$$. Is it > faster? > More stable? > > I don't mean to be sarcastic, I'd really like to know before I pony up > the > $$$. > > I know that Apple has one of the greatest "Hype and Spin" departments > of any > large company, shoot, they practically wrote the book on how to hype > tech > products. I want more than hype for my money. > -- > > Bill Stephenson > www.SecureShopper.com > 1-417-546-5593 > >
