I have been coveting a 2.7 DP Mac with 30" display for months now,
coming close on a few occasions to ordering. It was only a matter
of time, likely sooner than later, that I would have bitten the
bullet -- having been a PC owner for life. It's not that I have
experienced any PC problems, no moreso than a close friend of mine
experiences Mac problems, but the lure of beauty and style
integrated into a seamless package have had me secretly lusting for
a while now.

However, with their sudden switch to Intel (with more Mac'ers
calling the unholy union "Mactel"), thus rendering just about ALL
current applications totally INCOMPATIBLE with the forthcoming
machines and OS -- meaning costly software upgrades, immediate
obsolescence of currently available hardware with NO software
upgrade path for existing PowerMac users, etc -- my lust has waxed
cold to the point where I've decided to take my $8,000 and spend it
on a dual Xeon workstation and run XP64 instead.

What are all you current PMac users feeling, and what are your
plans for the future? It's obvious that most developers will
immediately cease all development on the PPC platform to switch
gears to accomodate the Mactel platform, leaving current hardware
owners more or less high and dry as far as future upgrades/updates
are concerned. Some may finish late-stage projects, but that's
likely it. If you move to a new Mactel, all of your current
software is basically useless and you'll need to buy Mactel
compatible upgrades.

Is this a roadblock, or just a speedbump?




Brendan