[Ti] like hell freezing over ?

[Chris Olson]

On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:59 PM, Kynan Shook wrote:

> However, I see no reason to not buy a Mac right now.

Especially since you'll only be able to get a real Mac for (maybe) a 
couple more years.  Apple made a complete ass of themselves today.  How 
long are they going to keep this web page up?
http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

And how long are they going to keep this one up?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/64bit/

So tell me, how are developers building 64-bit applications and testing 
them on a 32-bit 3.6 GHz P-IV processor?  They aren't even giving the 
developers a machine with a Pentium D in it with 64-bit extensions.  As 
you may well be aware, programming assembly for x86-64 is significantly 
different than for PowerPC.  And programming assembly for Intel's IA64 
is different again.  So how you going to make a "fat binary" for that?  
What's more, x86-64 isn't even real 64-bit.  It's another extension 
piled on top of the x86 arch.

And we got a translation layer (Rosetta) that doesn't support apps 
written with vector (AltiVec) code, nor does it support code that 
requires a G4 or G5 processor (like Final Cut).  So now what?  The 
PowerPC version of Final cut doesn't run on the Intel Mac with the 
translation layer.

Something's really rotten in AppleVille here.  They better start 
getting their story straight real quick because smoke and mirrors don't 
fool me very often.
--
Chris