Over Christmas, I plunked down $2000 I'd been saving for the past two years to get myself a G5. I love it; it's fast, efficient, and does everything without a hitch. I'm doing a small time documentary using Final Cut Express, and planned to take this machine with me to college.
Now, I'm supposed to sit back, and listen to Apple say, "Looks like what we were 'committed' to was a facade, expect the lifespan of your computer last only until we decide, and there's nothing you can do about it." Where does this put me? Where?
There's no way ATI or NVidia plan to support this hardware anymore, it's obsolete, so no more new video cards in the future. The RAM to run this thing? Well, no point in making that anymore, the computer is obsolete, prices are going to skyrocket. It'll only take two hours to port a program? Tell that to all the OS 9 developers who never bothered to get their stuff converted to X, even though that was supposedly "fast and easy" too. And then for Apple to have the balls to come out and say that this has been in the works for the past five years, but not have any kind of warning whatsoever? I'm a high school junior on a limited budget- Small time upgrades are all I have or will have the money to pay for. Had I known I was putting down $2000 in sweat and blood for something got the rug pulled out from it six months later, I would have waited. Now what? In three years, after their transition is over and Apple drops their support for the G5, then what am I supposed to do with this worthless, unupgradable hunk of metal at my feet?
Shame on you, Apple. The whole reason I went with you from the first place was the fact I thought you didn't double-cross your customers. The sad thing is, too, I've put too much money into this OS and machine to switch to anything else.
Sell your machines, make your profits, get your stock price up, Apple. But just remember, you're now the very thing you sought to be different from. Thanks a lot.
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Over Christmas, I plunked down $2000 I'd been saving for the past two years to get myself a G5. I love it; it's fast, efficient, and does everything without a hitch. I'm doing a small time documentary using Final Cut Express, and planned to take this machine with me to college.
Now, I'm supposed to sit back, and listen to Apple say, "Looks like what we were 'committed' to was a facade, expect the lifespan of your computer last only until we decide, and there's nothing you can do about it." Where does this put me? Where?
There's no way ATI or NVidia plan to support this hardware anymore, it's obsolete, so no more new video cards in the future. The RAM to run this thing? Well, no point in making that anymore, the computer is obsolete, prices are going to skyrocket. It'll only take two hours to port a program? Tell that to all the OS 9 developers who never bothered to get their stuff converted to X, even though that was supposedly "fast and easy" too. And then for Apple to have the balls to come out and say that this has been in the works for the past five years, but not have any kind of warning whatsoever? I'm a high school junior on a limited budget- Small time upgrades are all I have or will have the money to pay for. Had I known I was putting down $2000 in sweat and blood for something got the rug pulled out from it six months later, I would have waited. Now what? In three years, after their transition is over and Apple drops their support for the G5, then what am I supposed to do with this worthless, unupgradable hunk of metal at my feet?
Shame on you, Apple. The whole reason I went with you from the first place was the fact I thought you didn't double-cross your customers. The sad thing is, too, I've put too much money into this OS and machine to switch to anything else.
Sell your machines, make your profits, get your stock price up, Apple. But just remember, you're now the very thing you sought to be different from. Thanks a lot.