Like Tobe pondering on his recently acquired G5 I gave my 3 week old
iBook a look this morning that was akin to "well how's it feel to be
the last species on evolutions dead end path?" then decided "what
the heck" it still does and will continue to do what it does now and
more, Apples transition from 0x0 processors was slow and painless
the transition from vanilla PPC to Gx was barely noted except for
the nicer aesthetics and speed boost, classic OS to OS X has been, on
the whole, a great success... I guess if there is one company that
knows how to (and to borrow a feline metaphor from OSX) "change it's
spots" its Apple.
I don't doubt my iBook will see out it expected (hoped for) 4 years
of life without the issue being a major concern and will defiantly
encourage people at work to continue purchasing the current PPC based
macs as and when the need for them arise.
The only people who will could justifiably be concerned are people who:
A: have developed their own in house programs using MetroWorks -
sorry back to the drawing boards ppl.
B: people in the creative industries who really use the the Altivac
functions of the PPC chip to give them speed boosts in production -
though now doubt the new Intel machines will use a brute force
approach to processor speed to compensate - I expect to see the
replacement for the dual PPC processor G5 towers and X-Serves running
at least dual PentiumD chips (so 4 processors) and pretty high end
graphics processing cards to compensate.
On Tuesday, Jun 7, 2005, at 11:11 Australia/Perth, Stewart Woods wrote:
Why shouldn't I buy a new mac until next year?
Or, for that matter, advise my friends not to?
When the switch occurs, you can be sure Apple are going to be doing
everything they can to keep existing customers happy - stuff that
works on today's Macs still will, and support in new apps for the
G3/4/5 will have a long tail (like a lepoard?)
I'll quote from Tidbits on this one:
"We always suggest buying what you need when you need it; there's
invariably going to be something newer, better, and faster around
the corner, and it's silly to wait forever until they stop
innovating."
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08125>
Cheers,
Steve.
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