[Ti] like hell freezing over ?

[Chris Olson]

On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Shawn King wrote:

> $999.00 isn't all that much for *serious* developers (members willing 
> to pay the above membership dues) to have a smoking hot machine on 
> rental for a year.

That machine doesn't even make a good doorstop for the above mentioned  
*serious* developer, when that *serious* developer works with 64-bit 
CAD apps.

I don't pick my platform because it says "Apple" on it.  I pick it 
because it runs my apps.  Developing on a dual G5, then stepping 
backwards to a 32-bit P-IV that won't even run my apps for testing?  
I'm supposed to port to "Intel" expecting some vaporware x86-64 Apple 
machine at some unannounced point in the future?

Because His Steveness declared it, all developers are now only 
developing fat binaries for 32-bit x86 and PowerPC?  When the promise 
was for the high-end of the market with 64-bit apps and hardware?  
Where's my 64-bit Mactel dev box?  If it's going to be the future, I 
want it now.  Otherwise Apple did a pretty good job of smoke and 
mirrors.

All hail the Great Apple.  What they do is Holy and Right.  Except 
they're not covering all the bases here, and I'm pissed as hell about 
it.  What they're telling me - the high end user - is I got two years 
left on this platform then I'll be looking for something else because 
they decided, on a whim, that 64-bit development was only a temporary 
thing that comes to an end in 2007.  At that time maybe we'll have a 
decent 64-bit Mactel box for you, maybe we won't.

Sorry, it's not cutting it here.
--
Chris