[Ti] like hell freezing over ?

[themacuser]

They will eventually get a 64 bit x86. They do plan to keep G5s in the 
top line until 2010.
On 07/06/2005, at 14:50, Chris Olson wrote:

> 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
>
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