Snow Leopard The Death Of Mac As We Know It

[FakeWozniak]

Back in the Apple ][ day you could have given me Snow Leopard and the ability to run it, I would have jumped at the chance.

I agree with most of your reply, but not the above. I think given an Apple II, a PowerMac, and a Mac Pro, at MSRP today, anyone would make the same choice. The development costs of Snow Leopard, Intel Core 2 Duos, and every other part of the computer would make the cost of either a PowerMac or Mac Pro cost $100K back in 1976. I would have picked the Apple II still!

But again, I do agree with most of your post.

 

[mscriv]

This blogger's post is pointless, insomuch as the except I read. He makes no argument. He has a conclusion, but the rest of that post is purely recounting history. WTF is he going on about? How does the most leading edge update to (yes, arguably) one of the best OSs in existence mean the death of mac? Does the writer only consider Mac to be a PPC/Motorola compatible OS?

It hit me the same way... The article is more a history of major architectural change. So what. If you like the old Mac Plus, you can buy one on Ebay for $50 and run System 6.0.8. The Thread Starter's choice of Thread Title seems poor and suggested something inflamatory IMHO.

It never ceases to amaze me how intelligent people can read something and yet miss it's meaning entirely. The original blog post is, allright focus now and use google if you need to look up the meaning of words, a "point of interest piece". It is not and I repeat, NOT, a review of Apple's new technology, a prediction of the death of the company, or a call for a return to PPC Macs.

And as far as the thread title being "inflammatory", two things. First, "... is in the eye of the beholder" so check your preconceived notions at the door. You my friend, are a victim of eisegesis. Second, the phrase, "the death of ... as we know it" is a commonly used expression that implies a change has taken place in a certain area. This change is usually not small in that it alters the item being changed to a degree that it makes a break from it's past or former version of itself. Again, do a simple Google search for "the death of as we know it" and you will see countless articles or stories using this literary expression.

Seriously people, stop reading into things that people are attacking Apple or arguing that change is bad. In fact if you want to hear it straight from the source, the blogger himself expounded upon his intentions in writing and his view on the subject in this thread with post # 11.

 

[Nugget]

You my friend, are a victim of eisegesis.

Looks like someone is enjoying their Word-A-Day Calendar widget.

 

[Melrose]

I don't care. As long as they keep the Macintosh I love I'm easy. How they get there is not a biggie..

 

[mscriv]

Looks like someone is enjoying their Word-A-Day Calendar widget.

In actuality, I'm the victim of too much Greek and Hebrew study in college/grad school where this term is used a lot. I thought it drove home the point rather nicely though.

But, it would be cool to have one of those calendars!