"Joe Mama" wrote in message
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Andy Eng wrote:
I'm delighted...

After being a wintel owner/user for more than twenty years, I took the
plunged and went to a Mac (G4 PB) platform for remote recording and
post production mixing and art work. I've been most pleased since
making the change in terms of it being a productive package. BUT,...

I'm most pleased as to not having an upgrade path (I hope). Why?!?!?
I'm simply sick of getting nickeled and dimed with new apps upgrades,
more memory, more CPU, more apps, more memory, more CPU, etc. I've one
too many machines where just that one more addition pushed what was a
solid platform into a mess.

However!!!!

This ALSO more beans for more mics, more preamps, more mics, a
production CD/DVD cloner, more mics, more monitors, more mics, another
set of headphones, mor mics, a mic case, more mics, etc... :-)

Grumpy old fart in training... vbg

Andy

Indeed. It's like that Jerry Seinfeld routine about how at some point
your fashion 'stops': I'm still on OS9/PT 5.2 (well, dual boot, anyway)
and have no foreseeable need to 'upgrade' from a mature and stable OS to a
new and 'better' one. I rarely, if ever, find I have a compelling reason
to open any sessions in OSX/PT 6. The decision not to support OS9 with
the G5, while understandable, bums me out nevertheless.

On another note - isn't Digidesign developing on Wintel first now and
porting to Mac second? If that is correct, that would mean only good
things for ProTools users when Apple switches to Intel. Unless....

I am curious: does anyone know if, when they do switch, it will be to x86
Intel (P4 type architecture), or something a bit more 'proprietary' (for
lack of a better term)? I assume it will be 64 bit, and probably dual or
multi core, but nothing I've read on the subject makes this clear. The
thought of installing Windows on a Mac really does my head in. Surely
Apple would want to prevent that from being possible?

Cheers,
-joe.

I don't know the specifics, but my understanding from Steve Job's
presentation was that they've been running OSX from the start on x86
machines. I assume they mean run of the mill Pentiums and Athlons. But, you
can bet that they will come up with their own proprietary bios and MB
architecture so that, while their "Mactels" will support dual-boot Windows
XP64, you won't be able to run retail versions of their OS (whatever feline
name it will inherit) on a Dell/Gateway/HP machine.

Craig