[Ti] like hell freezing over ?

[~flipper]

Chris Olson wrote:

>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.

I'm too old to feel like this, but mature (I guess) enough to admit 
it, but I was heartsick last night when i got home from work.

It struck me that Jobs is a simple bald-faced liar, and when I popped 
on the Aluminum, and booted Tiger, I had this eerie, dreadful feeling 
that i was looking at OS 9, again. You know, as in 'doomed'.

Chris, although way off-topic, a year ago you mentioned some 
scenarios, or ideas, that i might want to pursu, in order to bring an 
old Titanium 667 back to life.

(The Ti in question has a fried Firewire port, no keyboard, a 
demolished Combo drive)

I'm on a one-year old Aluminum (which i guard with my life, and runs 
and looks brand new, i want to add)... but...

Now that i have a machine for day-to-day, and 'turnaround' isn't an 
issue, what are my options?

A mobo swap 'up', to a 1 gig board, even remotely possible? (I know 
the deal on keyboards and Combo drives, pretty trivial in comparison.)

Is there a 'market' in parts for the items I will need? I made a vow 
not to send a nickel to Apple, so third-party everything is the order 
of the day.

Thanks, and sorry for the stray from the 'sad' topic.

brian stegner
aka ~flipper