At 03:50 AM -0400 06/09/2005, Alex Black wrote:
You know, if I were in the market to buy a new Powerbook, I'd probably think
twice about it now, figuring that they may not be supported after a few more
OS upgrades, maybe 10.7 or something like that. If that's true, then all
current Powerbooks will be lame ducks a lot sooner that anyone thought!
And that's exactly the "attitude" that we, as Mac evangelistas, need
to overcome.
Just because your Porche *will have, in a year or two,* a different
engine in it doesn't mean it's turned into a Yugo or has lost any
value.
Compared to other companies, Apple has a great track record for
supporting older systems! Existing PPC systems sold in the past and
for the next two years aren't going to suddenly stop working. Apple
understands private, business, and government purchasing cycles.
There will be "fat binary" support for PPC and x86 for quite a few
years.
Think about it. Apple has continued Classic support for 5 years *so
far*. It works in Tiger (so that's another year+), and will most
likely continue to run in Leopard/PPC [*]. So that's at least 7
years or direct current support, for software they stopped selling a
long long time ago. It just doesn't make business sense for Apple to
abandon the fat binary support, going pure x86, any faster than that!
So... Bottom line:
Macs have great value today and will continue to be superior to
Windoze boxes.
[*] p67 of Apple's new Universal Binary Programming Guidelines sayeth
that Rosetta (the PPC->x86 translation engine) does not run apps
built for Mac OS 8 or 9. IOW, the x86 version of OS X will never
have OS 8/9 Classic mode.
- Dan.
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