A Question For Long Time Mac Owners
I didn't buy a Mac until the switch to Intel. Not that I waited so long because of that, but it just happened that way. I was just wondering if the people who've owned Macs since the Power PC days think about Intel Macs now that they've been out a few years. Think they are as good? Better? Worse? Would Macs still be running laps around PCs if they had PPC processors, or was that just marketing hype? Sound off!
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Think they are as good? Better? Worse?
Of course they're better. Light years ahead.
Would Macs still be running laps around PCs if they had PPC processors
That stopped happening around the late G4 era and that it stopped happening was the main reason for Apple switching. IBM wouldn't give Apple any sort of measurable timetable or roadmap for its releases, so Steve Jobs had to apologize for having said "The G5 will be at 3GHz next year," when it just plain didn't happen. Can't guarantee chip updates? Then we can't guarantee business with you.
NO WAY I was going to replace my G4 tower with the G5. The gigantic heatsink took 1/4 of the tower space. I knew that if when they switch over to Intel, Apple would add a 2nd optical drive in that space. And they did.
I have been using a refurbished original Mac Pro for 5-6(?) years now. Its great. I added more RAM and upgraded the graphics card. It can run 5 instance of World of Warcraft, record and watch DVR smoothly. But not run a Flash video!