Andre Garzia wrote:
Richmond,
real reasons are the CPU is better (yes, I too like ppc better than x86 but
G4 is a tad old) and also a better graphics card.
Soon, your G4 machine will be phased out of support from apple, you're
already not able to run snow leopard, if you don't upgrade soon, you will be
stuck frozen with the latest ppc releases and will have no where to run.
For a lone user this might not be a problem but for one doing development
this is because your users will want to know if such and such runs on intel
machines and you might want to implement features not available in your ppc
mac os x.
I keep a G4 here for testing but I also have an intel machine.
Although since, I am able to predict the future by looking at strange foamy
patterns in my now empty glass of ovomaltine,
It took me a minute to realise that "Ovomaltine" is what is marketed in
Britain
as "Ovaltine":
http://www.ovomaltine.com/
Just thinking about the smell of the stuff makes me feel dusgusted:
chacun a son gout
(sorry, Francophones, but when I tried a grave and a circonflex
everything went into
Cyrillic), or, as my Granny used to say; "Tastes differ, as the old
woman said when
she kissed the cow."
I am just sitting down with my 5th half-litre of good, strong, black
coffee as it is already
5.30 pm here in Bulgaria.
I say: "hold your hands!",
I think "Hold your horses" is more idiomatic . . . :)
I
think a apple product line refresh will happen shortly and that it might
drive down the price of entry level machines.
I really ought to plough on with my Sanskrit typewriter and then I might be
able to pay for a 'pinchless' computer. Frankly, feeling fairly frazzled
as most
of the work on Beta 2 is incredibly mundane and repetitive with no obvious
way to automate things. I have to get on though, as will not allow myself an
'elastic-sided' GANTT chart.
Cheers
andre
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Richmond Mathewson <
[email protected]> wrote:
And what did I see?
In Bulgaria, surprise, surprise, an Intel iMac
for the princely sum of Ł1100.
What benefits will accrue from my buying it
that I don't enjoy with my G4 Dual processor
monster?
I could, at a pinch, manage it; although the
'pinch' may come from my wife rather than
my wallet . . . :)
Before anybody mentions speed; that really
doesn't fuss me.
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