MaryAnn wrote:So I suppose this means the iMac G5 I bought last December, that I already consider to be a worthless hunk of junk, will be considered that way by everyone else when Apple goes to the Intel chip?
MA, who could have spent half what she did and got a PC that actually works
Now, Mary Ann--you could always make your G5 part of a collection.
MaryAnn wrote:So I suppose this means the iMac G5 I bought last December, that I already consider to be a worthless hunk of junk, will be considered that way by everyone else when Apple goes to the Intel chip?
MA, who could have spent half what she did and got a PC that actually works
Now, Mary Ann--you could always make your G5 part of a collection.
MaryAnn wrote:So I suppose this means the iMac G5 I bought last December, that I already consider to be a worthless hunk of junk, will be considered that way by everyone else when Apple goes to the Intel chip?
MA, who could have spent half what she did and got a PC that actually works
I'd be happy to take that worthless hunk of junk off your hands...
Seriously, the switch to intel doesn't make the G5 obselete. If anything, G5 users might be an advantagous position since they can run PPC applications natively. Developers will be supporting the PPC processors for years to come, but it may be a little while before all our apps are moved over to intel.
Okay I had an interesting thought about this topic. First of all, what is this going to mean for the IBM/Motorola processor market?
Secondly, since intel is gonna make all the chips for just about EVERY major PC manufacturer, what is this going to mean in terms of quality and innovation? will it mean that quality will increase because of a company that is growing, or will it mean that the company is gonna be way too big, causing them to get lax and complacent about quality and innovation?
Also, where does this leave AMD? This is a concern of mine because I greatly favor their processors. I consider them to be better at what I want them for. The same questions I have about Intel apply to AMD. Whats gonna happen?
An interesting off topic note is that ATI is probably going to be making the graphics processors for ALL of the next generation gaming consoles. This should be interesting to see if ATI completely switches over to the console market and leaves the pc field for NVIDIA.....
The opinions on osnews and slashdot do seem to be from true believers of both stripes, don't they?
But the thing that strikes me is that it's the games who seem to have the most interest in this subject. No app that I run even begins to tax my (P4) system's capacity to any extent. I don't do games. It was the news that someone was porting Linux to the PS3 that generated the most traffic on osnews.
I used to be a rabid upgrader, springing good dollars to replace my S-100 2 MHz 8080 with a 4 Mhz Z80, cranking my PC up to 8 MHz from 4.77; getting a blistering 16 MHz (and shaky performance) out of my PC-AT--but I haven't upgraded in a few years, because I've seen no need to. The last major investment was to go to a nice LCD monitor from my 21" Sony tube.
Maybe I'm getting too old to be interested in this battle of the CPUs thing--it's been done to death before.
i guess I'm wondering what could've posessed Jobs to make the annoucement so far ahead of the release date of the new platform. This can't be good for sales of new PPC-based Macs, unless he intends to offer them at fire sale prices...
Jobs announced it so early because he wanted developers to have as much time as reasonably possible to work on their apps. Remember, this was the World Wide Developers' Conference where the announcement was made.
Chuck(G) wrote:i guess I'm wondering what could've posessed Jobs to make the annoucement so far ahead of the release date of the new platform. This can't be good for sales of new PPC-based Macs, unless he intends to offer them at fire sale prices...
I don't think this transition period could have been made without that little gizmo called "iPod", strangely enough.
Hmmm, this may be the time to pick up a PPC-based system and a copy of Code Warrior really cheap.
....or perhaps Slashdot
If this were Slashdot, there would be 3 pages of...
