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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com>]

Yeah, you have the great luck to make the switch at just the right
(wrong?) time for that to hit.

Luckily, that size shift in the company has only happened once before,
with 68k to PPC, and with PPC64 working just fine with old PPC
binaries, It'll be a long, long while before we switch architectures
or the core of the OS again

~ian


On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:44:34 -0500, Alex Wilson <alex AT awstudios.net> wrote:
> On 11/11/04 11:51 AM, "Ian Meyer" <ianmeyer AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > basically, I know a lot of mac users. I also know a lot of people who
> > think they're great computers, but for one reason or another, don't
> > have one. My question is simple: for all you non-mac users out there
> > in INW land, what is the main reason you don't have a mac?
> 
> For me, I didn't find the hardware cost to be a problem, because a
> comparable laptop running Windows (but heavier, with worse battery life)
> would cost about the same as an iBook at the time. But it was a matter of
> 
> (A) having to pay again for software I had already purchased for Windows.
> Adobe has crossplatform upgrades, but Macromedia and some other high end
> software doesn't.
> 
> (B) not knowing how to troubleshoot Macs. I'd used Windows for five years
> (and never owned or seriously used a Mac) and family members would call me
> with their computers for four of those years. If something went wrong, I was
> stuck. And never owning a laptop before, I just assumed there would be
> problems.
> 
> I ended up switching anyway, because battery life was the most important
> thing for my thinking at the time. This was 2001.
> 
> (B) turned out to be no problem. Yeah, I was uncomfortable doing my
> quarterly backup-nuke-paves to keep Windows running smoothly, but it turned
> out I didn't need to.
> 
> (A) turned out to be a problem, mainly because I switched in 2001. Software
> wasn't as expensive as I thought it would be and I could use VirtualPC to do
> file conversions and such when necessary, but I would occasionally need to
> buy the Mac version of a piece of software, and then need to upgrade six
> months later when I wanted the software to run natively in this newfangled
> thing called OS X.
> 
> Anyway, those were my obstacles and aside from having to plunk down more
> money on software than I would have liked, I'm really glad I switched. YMMV.
> 
> Alex.
> 
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> 
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