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Originally Posted by DonovanPhillips
If you don't know why having to buy all new software and having new software work on my current Macs is a BAD thing, you need to sit and ponder awhile.
nalysts say the move risks alienating Apple's historically loyal users. Software now built for Macs will have to be rewritten and then may not work on older Apple machines.
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You really don't know much....
http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1112
"Gray said his team ported Mathematica 5 to Intel-based Macs in 2 hours. "We?re talking about twenty lines of source code out of millions," he said."
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Originally Posted by DonovanPhillips
Apple notebooks running at a lower mhz than PCs are actually faster. You're comment isn't worth digging up the proof. Search it out yourself.
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That's exactly why this is a good thing... there is a huge misunderstanding on the difference between PC/Mac clock speeds... if they are both running on the same processors and have comparable speeds then the argument is gone.
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Originally Posted by DonovanPhillips
If it's true that all Mac software will be re-written, what fucking point is there using a Mac?
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Do you use a MAC because of the processor??? That's insane. I use Apple's because of the software and the user interface... what happens inside doesn't really concern me as long as it works.