Will You Stick with Apple, After the Switch?

caseykoons writes "While I understand the /. crowd is likely to be biased, I am curious. Has Apple's decision to switch to Intel Chips lost the company some of its old supporters? I have used Macs since I grew up, was a loyal 'Mac Evangelist' back in the '90's, but the company's decision and the recent connection to Trust Computing have had me wondering if I will stick with the old Apple from now on. What are your thoughts?"

Comments

What "recent connection to Trusted Computing?"

[mTor]

You're just repeating unsubstantiated rumors. Please, provide us with some evidence that Apple will fully implement TC.

Also, I don't know anyone who runs anything but OS X on their Macs and Apple's Schiller has stated many times that you'll be able to run Windows XP on your machine (but they won't support it) so I don't see how TC makes any difference to me. I don't care about Linux (that's why I run OS X).

Re:Software...

[daviddennis]

Adobe and even Apple charged for the upgraded versions that transitioned to native MacOS X. You paid for the version of Photoshop that upgraded, and you paid for the version of Final Cut Pro that upgraded.

But you did get a lot of cool features. I don't remember too many complaints, more a mad thundering rush of credit cards escaping wallets and being taken out for a spin.

D

Re:It's all about OSX..

[HTH NE1]

There have been 5-6 processor changes in the history of Apple.

Apple: 6502, 65c02, 65c816

Macintosh: 68000, 68020, 68030, 68040

PowerMac: 601, 604, G3, G4, G5

That's two major changes in the past (three if you count the Mac OS X compatibility break between the 604 and G3). Should I have counted the processors used in the Newton and iPod? Or NeXT?

Mactel: Pentium 4

And there ends the run of the 6's/G's that harkened back to the original Apple I price of $666.66, unless Jobs gets Intel to relabel the processors for Apple for the production model.

And shouldn't such a major processor change also entail a model name change?