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Re: Apple goes Intel	Sat, 11 June 2005 14:04

gearb0x: get an old 2nd-hand mac - my dual 500mhz G4 seems to cope with high-end publishing software and current OS (10.4) - cheaper than a white-box PC and very stable and the hardware lasts for years. I paid just over $600 for the box and a 17" monitor (privately, not thru a reseller or auction). As for apple hardware issues - you learn to fix stuff yourself and like most PC's hardware either works or is dead. I've been using these boxes in pro publishing since 1992 and in that time we've had: one m/board replaced, several x dead HD, one dead P/S. All replaced by us inhouse from parts ordered from Apple. The old hairy chestnut of sending stuff 'back to apple' is a crock. Unless you know nothing about basic computer hardware, you can do it yourself. Plus the design and build quality is good enough for you to never need to take it in for service. sorry about the dig at you about non-standard hardware If apple get the hardware migration right, it's only altivec-specific stuff and possibly tools that interact directly with bus control and possibly memory management (if they change the whole chipset) that will be greatly affected. Most application developers are treating that as system level stuff so it's Apple's problem, not the developes (at the moment). cheers, charles. [Report message to a moderator]

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