On Jun 12, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Ben Dyer wrote:
Personally, I'm looking forward to replacing my 1.67GHz PowerBook with something roughly 3 times as fast (if what I've been hearing about OS X performance on the developer boxes is correct) in about a year's time. The transition will be a headache for a lot of developers, but it's definitely the right move to make.
It seems to me that for many of us the big question is about our investment in software, and whether buying a new x86 machine may be the least expensive part of a change.
That is, repurchasing some - or much - of our accumulated software in a version that has been recently translated from PPC code to x86 code could be far more expensive than shelling out $2k-$3k for a new machine. I can see this as an opportunity for many software developers and publishers to resell the same title to those who need it for some cost either equal to or somewhat less than the cost of that same title when purchased new.
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