This is a little bit of a rant, really, but I've been thinking about it lately. Remember the time when the Motorola 500 MHz G4 processor was the top processor at Apple for over a year? It was a terrible time for us Mac-zealots. We started to really, really, really hate Motorola. Even now, when Motorola steadily delivers new and better G4 chips (the 745x and 744x have nicely scaled in the past), there are a lot of posts that clearly prefer IBM to Motorola. And I can understand this, as I'm part of this thinking myself, most of the time. IBM scaled the G3 while Motorola stuck with the G4 at the time.
Now, Apple went with IBM and delivered the G5. Remember WWDC 2003 in June: We were all fascinated and we all thought: THIS is the way out. NOW we're there, finally. The G5 was vapour-ware for the better part of 3 years, now it's the new best thing.
It's been almost nine months now since Apple announced the 2 GHz G5 dual machine. Granted, they have delivered it later, but from the announcement, nine months have passed. The price has not been lowered. We're living in a strange country here, this Apple country.
As I've said, this is a rant... But wouldn't you like Apple to release faster machines every 2-3 months?
Now, Apple went with IBM and delivered the G5. Remember WWDC 2003 in June: We were all fascinated and we all thought: THIS is the way out. NOW we're there, finally. The G5 was vapour-ware for the better part of 3 years, now it's the new best thing.
It's been almost nine months now since Apple announced the 2 GHz G5 dual machine. Granted, they have delivered it later, but from the announcement, nine months have passed. The price has not been lowered. We're living in a strange country here, this Apple country.
As I've said, this is a rant... But wouldn't you like Apple to release faster machines every 2-3 months?