6 Jun
2005
6 Jun
'05
10:06 p.m.
On Monday 06 June 2005 22:18, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
It's bad news. I've been nauseous all day.
Same here.
I think by removing the last piece of
"unique" out of modern Macs --
the PPC CPU -- Apple has just announced they're in the PC business.
Once VPC gets to the point where Windows apps are no longer second
class citizens in the Mac world (like they are under VPC now), and
run at or near full speed, Macintosh will cease to be relevant
because who would want to write a Mac app when a Win app will do?
This is the same thing that killed OS/2.
I liked Macs because they were an inexpensive way to get a Power(PC)
box. IBM's workstations were much more expensive...
I'll buy a G5 before they disappear, and then find
some new platform
to colonize.
IBM's stuff is starting to come down to nearly reasonable prices... I'll
suggest their OpenPower machines:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/openpower/hardware/710express.html
IBM seems to be the one remaining major vendor of "worthwhile"
RISC-powered machines now, since Alpha has been getting squashed by
HPaq for a while now.
Pat
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