[X4U] Apple to move to Intel

[Jeffrey Stormshak]

Does anyone know or experience what Apple did when it changed from  
68x to PPC concerning software products (besides recompiling for the  
new chipset)??

Could you imagine having to buy an new Mac with Intel inside and to  
have to ditch several thousand dollars of software from your old  
PowerMac since they where compiled for the PPC in the first place?   
Is Apple offering automatic/free updates for its consumer base?   
Apple's Motion, DVD Pro and Macromedia alone was over $2200.00.  Not  
to mention VPC7, Music Software, numerous OS X Tools, etc.  Or do  
they assume, just buy the Intel version instead and eBay the rest -

Just curious - or is it too soon to tell??

PS: The note of my reboot issue is that I find myself *more*  
Productive on this Architecture than other platforms using Intel and  
AMD - even though I give AMD a close second place.   ;-)

J.
On Jun 4, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Johns Maillist wrote:

>
> On Jun 4, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Jeffrey Stormshak wrote:
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>
>>
>> I've spent years trying to find a "Solid" platform and after  
>> trying a loaded Win XP Pro system using AMD chips, nothing beats  
>> the fully loaded G5.  I could never imagine trying to use Apple's  
>> Motion, DVD Studio, Macromedia Studio, importing Video, using  
>> numerous applications, X-Windows and other UNIX tools, etc without  
>> having to reboot to gain back unallocated RAM...  Point of fact, I  
>> never could find the tools and applications for XP that would  
>> execute like those on the PowerMac thus why the (25) Million  
>> current user base.
>>
>
> I am not so sure you would see the reboot issue as we do with XP,  
> since the OS is what claims and allocates the RAM usage. It would  
> be a reasonable assumption, I believe, that the Mac OS on Intel  
> (should this prove to be true) would still perform as we have come  
> to know and love.
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