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What will get you to go intel?

native photoshop elements, lightroom or aperture. The icing on the cake will be VMware or somebody letting my have a virtual windows machine for windows games. :) Oh...I forgot...a 17 inch macbook pro.
 
If they release a new iBook based on an Intel chip that can play 1080p H.264 without droping frames and host multi-video chats in iChat and price the thing at or below $899, I will place an order as fast as I can type my credit card number.
 
My next computer will be a Mac. My next Mac purchase will be in the summer of '07. Most software that matters will be universal by then.

So there's no real reason I'm waiting to switch to Intels, it just is.
 
For it to run all the apps I need native....

especially final cut pro
and all the adobe apps(cs, after effects..blah blah)
 
I'm switching as soon as I have the money saved up for a MacBook. I'll need a new machine when I start my Master's program this fall, and I'm not afraid of Rev. A hardware either. But there's a catch...

....I really hope running XP will be possible and legal on the new Macs, because I will need a dual-boot machine for my Master's work unless I get a Wintel laptop.

eclipse525 said:
What Blizzard needs to do is release a entirely new Diablo! Great game. Also, why the heck is UT2004 STILL UT2004? Why haven't they released anything substantially new?
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Well, if Diablo had a date in the name it would be "Diablo II 1998" and I'd still be playing it anyways...just like I still play Myth II occasionally.
 
I'm in the middle of my (at least) 6 yr life cycle on my PM being the primary home machine (knocking on wood). Ram is now maxed at 2 GB on the PM; room to grow on the PB. I'm likely to up the video card to 256 from 64MB on the PM. Both my G4s are very zippy - my dual seems to zip along at the same rate as the 2.0 GHz G5 iMac a family member across the country recently purchased. Still good marks in Xbench. I expect OSX and iLife to be universal binaries for a few years. So I'm at least another three years and some disposable income away from Intel. My PM will likely be replaced first. My PB with 1.5 and 128 VRAM was offered until not too longer ago - still at the beginning of its lifecycle. Once these are no longer the primary machines, they'll likely be in the kids rooms for a few years to come after that. But the upshot is that intel is still aways away for me, but not because it's intel, just because of the life cycle - I anticipate that my purcahse timelines would be the same if Apple had stuck with PPC.
 
I'm planning to just transition smoothly. I'm planning to buy an Intel Mac mini as soon as they're released. It won't be my main machine, I'll just use it for iLife mostly. If anything comes along that's Intel only I can run it on that. However, my Power Mac and PowerBook will remain my main machines. I'll replace them as needed, probably in another year or so for the PowerBook, maybe around 2 years from now for the Power Mac.
 
When I have had my current machines for a year I will switch to the Intel machines. I usually sell my Macs around a year after getting them and upgrade. So Late 2006 for these.......assuming there is a 12" or 13" MacBook Pro. And I'd like a 23" iMac (or a 30" would be even better). :)
 
The thought that Mac users having been bleating about their superior processors all these years (hey, there are zounds of them) only to come back to Intel with their tails tucked between their legs, that'd get me to switch pronto! :D

But seriously, it definitely looks very good now, I will just wait a while and heard more from the paying beta testers first.
 
Probably a couple of years, when I have to replace my now year-old 15" PB.
 
I have already placed the order: 20-inch iMac from Amazon ($1694.99 - $26.61 A9.com - 1.5% American Express - $150 Amazon mail-in rebate = $1493.35) and two 1 GB sticks from Outpost ($155 with shipping - 1.5% American Express = $152.68). At $1646.03 total, I figure I can be a guinea pig for Universal Binaries and Rosetta. Except for Mac Office, Adobe Creative Suite, and Quicken, I expect all the apps I use to be Universal Binaries in few months.

Unfortunately, neither memory nor iMac is shipping anytime soon. :(
 
rendezvouscp said:
I'm starting to wonder if a company will create an app, or something, that allows you to dual-boot into Mac OS X and then Fast User Switch (or something along those lines) to Windows. Will it be possible?
-Chasen
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Basically what you are describing is VirtualPC running natively on an Intel CPU so that it doesn't need to emulate a whole processor just to run Windows. This will make it (almost) as fast as just running Windows by itself on the computer and of course VPC can be activated/hidden etc. like any other app.
 
I'll be keeping hold of my G5 Power Mac for a while yet – simply because it does everything I want it to do as efficiently as I want it doing. When the time comes when its performance isn't satisfactory enough for my needs, I'll upgrade to a new Mac then – and I imagine by that point the whole product range will have switched to Intel processors, so I imagine it'll be at that point I make the switch too.

Hopefully, it'll be a long time before I feel the need for a new machine – not because of any reservations about having an Intel chip powering my computer, but simply because I'm not a great fan of forking out lots of cash. But for the moment, there's plenty of life in the old girl yet. :)
 
alywa said:
I think for many of us it will simply be a timing issue.

I'm perfectly happy with my iMac G5 Rev. b, and I see no compelling reason to even be considering a new system yet. A few years from now, things will be different. Streaming HD, Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, 20+ Megapixel cameras, etc... eventually all computers get old. When the time comes, apps will be x86 native, and dual / quad cores will be the norm.

If I needed a new computer now to do my tasks, I'd be getting one now. But I don't, so the switch looks to be at least 2 years for now.
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Agreed there. I'll get an intel only incidentally. It will be because I need/want a new Mac, and they happen to have Intel chips.

Of course, if apple starts hobbling the powerpc computers, then I might have to change the thinking. But for now it's not hte intel chip that will get me to buy a new one.
 
Here are my requirements before buying my next iMac, which will be Intel-based:

- Conroe chipset
- Leopard pre-installed
- iLife 07 pre-installed
- Blu Ray optical drive
- 1 GB RAM minimum
- 500 GB HDD minimum

Not planning on upgrading for another 1-2 years, simply because my current G4 iMac does everything I need to and more with no complaints. If it ain't broke... :cool:
 
All it would take is a sub-$900 laptop ($700-750 education price). I'd go for it in a heartbeat.

jW
 
A redesigned Macbook/ibook. If apple could come out with a 13" wide screen convertable i would buy it in a heart beat. But i will NOT buy a new computer that looks exactly the same (or very similar to all of those people who say that the IR port and the iSight make it have a completely new design) design. Either redesigned, or my current powerbook dies. which could be a real long time.
 
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