Personally I didn't believe it would be a total transition - as I
said was plugging that it would be for a low end consumer "digital
lifestyle hub" - maybe to replace the mini and maybe the iBook (yeh
yeh I know supporting two disparate hardware platforms would be a
financial killer) . Now, instead we will see the whole range
including the x-serves (I guess) ported to Mactel (yes can see that
one catching)... looking at my 3 week old iBook and thinking I'm kind
of glad I didn't get the 17" PowerBook...
I know it will continue to do do everything (and more) that it could
do when I bought it and that the total transition, if it goes to
schedule, will not happen until it's in the last 6 months of my 3
year roll over plan however the ironic ephemeral nature of hardware
was nailed home hard.
Well, wow.
Steve doesn't preclude Windows running on a 'Mactel' (TM) box, but
won't let the Mac OS run on anything but a Mac box. Seems like that
spells the end of a Mac specific games industry. I imagine people
will just buy a copy of Windows to play Doom 4, Half-Life 3 ...
Sitting here with my less than 6 month old Dual 1.8 G5, I can't help
but have mixed feelings about the whole thing. The uneasiness I feel
isn't really rational though, which is a comfort.
What I am concerned about is that I've just become part of the
'software support process', in much the same way that a PPC 7600
user was when G3 systems were first introduced. Developers from here
on in now have to think about how much time they're going to spend
supporting my system.
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