Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?

[Stephen M. Adams <adamst@no.spam>]

BluPhoenyx <BluPhoenyx-@-earthlink.dot.net> writes:

>Does anyone see the similarity here? It seems current Mac users are 
>getting a taste of what Apple did to the II series. Perhaps Mac users 
>who wish to continue using their current hardware will band together 
>like other orphaned platforms. It is hoped they can skip some of the 
>problems these other platforms have endured.

There's a world of difference.  OS X runs on BOTH platforms.  It's not
a lot of extra work for Apple to release the PowerPC version for several
years.  It's two YEARS before the transition is complete - so at a 
minimum, we'll have two more years of OS X releases for PowerPC.  And I
wager it'll be more like 4 (to allow the Intel install base to catch
up).

Current PowerPC Mac owners will have pretty much full support until
2009.  That will make my dual-G4 6+ years old.  Hardly as if I didn't
get good use out of it.  If I needed a new system now, I'd STILL buy
a Mac.

 -Stephen
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