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| > So unless someone drops a $100K job on me, I'm pretty much married to the Mac, unless Apple forces me to do otherwise. Which when you get down to it is really the issue many of us are facing. Well said - having spent the 90's as IT consultant, people always argue about hardware and OS's, but the real focus needs to be on software. Smart technology buyers seek a hardware platform and OS to that runs the software you want to run and/or have a huge investment in, not the other way around. The issue for current Apple shops, small or big, is will their continue to be hardware platform and OS to support the software they run. Personally, I think we all, Mac and Windows (and Linux) users lose if Apple moves away. Hopefully, at worst, they will license, spin-off or some other way ensure the platform will go on. Hell, it took me a long time to get my Hackintosh built... I think the Mac Pros should continue in some form, but it would be nice to see both Mac Pros and iMac lines get more choices in CPU (6 core single CPU's especially). Given the modest engineering changes required to update Mac Pros, it seems likely Mac Pros will continue to be made. Hell, they could just use a reference Intel board, a boot EFI (plenty of single programmers have written them for Hackintosh use) and stock parts all around, outsource a case design and stick it in the Apple store with a huge markup. They could make those until the end of time at minimal cost and overheard other than support/warranty. stephen van vuuren 336.202.4777 http://www.sv2studios.com/ http://www.outsideinthemovie.com/ http://www.stephenv2.me/ A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. -Stanley Kubrick |
