[X4U] Apple's move to Intel chips... It's all about DRM

[Davy Brion]

On 28 Jul 2005, at 20:06, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:

> On 6/7/05 12:28 PM, Andy Hannen <andy.hannen at virgin.net> wrote:
>
>
>>> On 07/giu/05, at 20:16, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Also, who expects to run the latest software on a 5-year-old Mac?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Me LOL.
>>>
>>>
>> I DO run the latest software on a 5 (well 4 and a bit) year old Mac.
>>
>
> Well, I have a 3-year-old Mac that is incompatible with Adobe's  
> Creative
> Suite 2, which I would consider the latest software.
>
> I guess the difference is between Apple Pro and Consumer lines. If you
> purchase a Pro Mac (PowerMac, PowerBook) you can expect it to run  
> the latest
> software for 4+ years(?) but if you're using a Consumer Mac (iMac,  
> eMac, Mac
> mini, iBook) you will be stuck after about 3 years. You'll usually  
> be able
> to use Apple's OS for 5 years, but many of the features won't be  
> supported
> (iChat videoconferencing), won't work at all (CoreImage) or will be  
> too slow
> to be real usable.
>

so the current iMac (the 'slowest' one is a 1.8Ghz G5) won't be able  
to run the latest and greatest software in a few years which,  
following your logic, a current Powerbook (with a 1.67Ghz G4) will run?

wow, that's odd... ;)