Apple Unveils New Pro Products

porcupine8 writes "As many had speculated, today Apple unveiled upgrades to their PowerBook and Power Mac lines (although no PowerBook G5). They also introduced a new professional photography application known as Aperture, rounding out their software lineup for creative professionals. Can't wait to find out what they announce next week!"

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Re:No PowerBook G5

[admactanium]

Hell, I'm amazed anyone is actually planning on buying ANY Apple hardware based on the obsolete PowerPC architecture.

you're looking at it from the wrong way. i'm a professional art director/graphic designer and i ordered a quad core this morning when i woke up. a lot of small studios and pro who aren't on a strict purchasing schedule have been waiting a very long time for this machine. the reason being, we all know the intel transition is coming. i would be one of the first early adopters of it IF i knew that my needed graphics apps were going to be ported quickly and the bugs of the processor transition were squashed. but since we don't know really when the all the apps will be ready, we need a machine that is future-proofed for a couple of years.

i'm looking for a machine to last me for probably two to three years. it's likely i won't switch to the intel platform until the second generation and i bet a lot of other pros are waiting it out as well. ppc is a known quantity and familiarity and predicability are very important when you rely on your computer and third party apps to make a living. so i'll stick on ppc until i KNOW that all the issues are worked out on intel. a quad 2.5 machine is the perfect machine to tide me over until macintel gen 2.