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smd3 wrote:

I'm sorry, this whole thing has really gotten me down. I hope I eat my words. I bought an Apple because I don't like having the same junk. I pretty much stopped using Windows in the mid 90's for Linux.

My next switch was to AMD from Intel. The lower cost and the near, if not superior, performance was just what I wanted.

I guess my biggest worry, really, is that there will be a very fine line between a Mac and a Windows box. If they're both running Intel hardware I doubt there will be much different.

Apple's unique hardware has been key in producing stable and productive hardware. They've had strict control of the peripherals and that control has given us better quality.

I don't think this is a good road for Apple. They're esentially throwing out what makes them unique. What's left, OSX? Once  the Intel port is out I doubt it's long before we see OSX on a Dell.

Not you as well! NO OSX on a Dell!!! Did you read, watch, attend the speech? Grrrrrr. The same hardware controls WILL be in place with the Intel Macs!!! The only difference will be a cpu change. Everything else on a Mac was STANDARD PC HARDWARE anyway! Nothing special there. In fact, the hardware on even the most recent Macs in BEHIND the times when compared to a decent PC.

I cannot believe you made that statement, "What's left, OSX?" OS X is what makes the Mac a Mac.

It seems many folks are more interested in elitist braggging rights nonsense versus useablity of their computers. Do you really think that Apple is going to start making $299.00  Macs to be sold next to the low-end computers sold at department stores? Relax mon, everything will be fine.

/rant over

Last edited by lamewing (2005-06-07 7:27 am)