Caranorn -> RE: What hardware and operating system do you expect to use to play MWIF? (4/8/2006 2:33:29 PM)
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Well, we are both really off topic. But at least from my perspective, Apple has blown it's customer base, or at least a very big part of it. So they no longer have a stable customer base, or at least no longer as large a one as they used to. Another problem is of course how Apple's prices have continued to grow when other producers have declining prices, not to speak of the decreasing software offer for the Mac (though again, this will no longer be an issue with dual system capacity, what you can't get for MacOS you get for Windows...). The funny part is, since I stopped buying Apple products I've seen more Macs in use then ever before. So there is indeed one area where Apple has managed to expand once again, that is education (my home city's schools have gone 100% Macintosh for instance). But none of the people working there buy a Mac privatelly (some have portables for the job, even those don't get used much privately), my sister even regularly complains to me about the Macs (and I've had to go work on their school system a few times (apparently it's easier to work with me an amateur then their own techs). Anyhow enough rambling. I just found the original post about the Intel-Mac pretty sad as it seems to be just the opposite of what much of the Macintosh userbase was looking for in the early 90's when the PowerPCs came out. P.S.: By the way, the Motorolla processors were always high quality. It is true that for a long time their clock speed was lagging behind Intel, but backside cache on the G3's certainly seemed to make up for that. In the dozen years I spent using Macs I don't think I ever had any problem with the processors (68k to G4), though I must confess I was disapointed with the early G4's.
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