Full official Apple's support for PowerPC until 2009 and you know how the 3rd party support was for those 680x0 machines. On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Jean-Paul Thuot wrote: > My mom-in-law stayed with us last month, and after using our computers > (wife has iBook, I have PB) now she wants to buy a PB. She is looking > at an unused (new in box) 15" 1.5Ghz with 3 years' Applecare for about > $1900 USD. > > I've encouraged her to check out Macs, but I'm not sure she should buy > this one now, if the Intel versions are coming out in the near future. > If she buys this one, how long do you think Apple will support it in > terms of software, OS upgrades etc.? $1900 is a significant amount of > money, and she's expecting this to last a good few years (is 5 out of > the question?). > > Any feedback would be appreciated. > > Jean-Paul > _______________________________________________ > Titanium mailing list > Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984