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Arm us to far behind in the performance department and wit the absence of 64 bits processors, it won't be on many servers either. I know some people would love to see Windows become irrelevant, one look at the enterprise IT market shows that is not possible for at least a decade or two.
that have high performance. its a race a race to see who gets a good balance on both. I personally think intel has the upper hand only because its a larger company with more resources.
Problem is, it looks like more and more people around here are keying into the pure nonsense of some posts and simply point it out for the plain nonsense it is instead of going the "all sides lose" flame war route, and thats perfect for us but bad for you.
Personally, I miss the old days of the PowerPc chip in my macs. I remember using my first iMac with battery such as IBM ThinkPad T40 Battery, IBM ThinkPad T41 Battery, IBM ThinkPad T42 Battery, IBM ThinkPad T43 Battery, IBM ThinkPad R50 Battery, IBM ThinkPad R51 Battery, IBM FRU 08K8193 Battery, IBM 92P1060 Battery, IBM 08K8214 Battery, IBM 08K8195 Battery running a g3 processor and using iMovie and Final Cut on it. The thing was fan-less and amazing. To bad I got rid of it.
My hunch is that if the reports are true that Apple is ditching the power users, artist and professionals for the lucrative market that they are in now.
I'm fed up with Apple! They changed my beloved Final Cut program into a beefed up iMovie and the have literally changed as a company. I really don't know them anymore and I've used them for 14 years straight.
Last year I bought a Lenovo and this year I bought a Galaxy S3. The Apple nostalgia of the old days is still there but the competition is getting even better now to take me away from Apple.
PowerPC was a far better architecture than Intel's x86. The trouble was that IBM didn't have the economies of scale that Intel did, to get their fabrication plants ready for the new processors in a timely manner. There were always delays.
But for those who like RISC processors that don't use much power, you should be happy, as the ARM processor fits that description and is taking over the world. Look at Chromebook.
Apple definitely seems to be dumping the pro user. There was some hope that, with the exist of Steve Jobs, they might re-evaluate this a bit. But it's easy enough to see: Final Cut, the ridiculously ancient Mac Pro, etc.
The problem isn't demand, but apparently, focus. The Mac is now less than 15% of Apple's business. And while the Mac market has actually grown a bit over the last few years, it's nearly all "iOS Coattails" growth -- folks fall in love with an iPhone or iPad and buy a Mac to go with. The pros are leaving, and even more are being readied to leave.
Just look at the FCPX release... that didn't just alienate pro users, it migrated them. Even if you didn't leave the Mac, the special offers from Avid and Adobe had to be hard to pass up. And FCP7 was terribly neglected anyway: the only pro-class NLE still 32-bit only, lacking in native editing, no GPU acceleration, etc. Once you're on Avid or Adobe, it's really easy to notice that you can get much faster hardware for much less on Windows.