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OK – so I am being silly. But it does strike me as rather amusing that one day Steve Jobs tells the world that the Apple future is Intel Pentium yet 24 hours later, the Apple website is still extolling the virtue of the PPC G5. In fact, it’s telling us how so much superior the G5 is over the laggardly Intel offering. Does the announcement of the move to Intel mean that Apple have been wrong about this all this time? Or are they trying to tell us that they are taking a step backwards?
2 Responses to “Did They Tell the Marketing Department?”
Sorry to land on this all this time on, I thought this was rather sad, and a case of Apple “selling out” My first meeting with an Apple was when my Dad took me into a showroom to see one of the original B?W screened Macintoshes. It was love at first sight, but I didn’t get to own my own Mac until 1993. I still have it today, because through an unfortunate series of events I didn’t really get to use it properly until 1997! I still have it today, and still love it to bits and between you and me I reckon that some of the features of System 7.5 can beat even Windows XP! Having borrowed then bought a friends Toshiba laptop a few years ago we collected a library of Windows based games, so when the opportunity came to invest in our own new laptop Best Beloved wanted a Microsoft machine much to my disappointment. So we have this Evesham laptop thing (on it’s second hard drive in 2 years!)
I still intend to buy another Mac. I miss the table lamp (last model) and am not too keen on the latest (a bit clumsy for Apple really) so perhaps it’ll be a ‘Mini’ which is the only modern ‘mini’ worthy of the name (Geddit!)
You don’t care for the BMW then?
I have to disagree with you on the iMac. Personally, I think it is a terrific machine of beauty – mainly because of that wonderful, large screen. I almost wish I had justification for buying one!
I missed the whole Mac thing. I worked as a programmer using Windows from about the time the Mac was first launched so never really had the chance to use one. It wasn’t until I quit work and needed a new laptop that I rebelled and bought my Powerbook. And I have to say that two years on there is no going back.