Apple Needs to Clarify the Situation

[rock6079]

I know this is a silly question to many - But, what do you mean by slow - the computer literally becomes slow or because of new software thats more hungry for power that it becomes slow?

I just ask because right now my iMac is perfect and runs FCE good enough for me!! and when I get 2gig of ram, wow. If its fast enough for me now, surely it will be fast enough for me in 3/4 years time???

i dont know what the actual answer to your question is. i think it is more of a software updates which are made to take advantage of new hardware improvments (but you would be on old hardware) along with accumulated stuff on your computer over the years (unless you clean it or reformat it i guess). But whatever the answer is what i can tell you is that my 700mhz Flap Panel iMac was the speediest Mac i was ever on, and ran FCE like i couldn't believe when i first got it. Today with FCE 2.0 and i guess more new apps, I find myself wanting to throw the iMac out a window , sometimes it is just sooooooooooooo slow, but im sure a lot of that is attributed to me. Anywase, upgrading every 2 years or so is fun. The only problem now is that i was just a bout to upgrade to a G5 within this week. As of right now i know i am going to wait at the very least a month just until some more information on this intel stuff comes out and i find out what it will really mean for those who purchase Macs between now and the next 2 years.

On any note, enjoy your iMac

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

I don't know anyone who keeps a mcahine much longer then 2 years...

Tell that to our companies webmistress. She still has a Blue and White PM that is seeing regular use.

 

[bosrs1]

Tell that to our companies webmistress. She still has a Blue and White PM that is seeing regular use.

That's one

All of my friends however are on Dual 2.0s or faster.

Unless they're PB people then they have the new touchpads or the gen before.

 

[mauly]

i dont know what the actual answer to your question is. i think it is more of a software updates which are made to take advantage of new hardware improvments (but you would be on old hardware) along with accumulated stuff on your computer over the years (unless you clean it or reformat it i guess). But whatever the answer is what i can tell you is that my 700mhz Flap Panel iMac was the speediest Mac i was ever on, and ran FCE like i couldn't believe when i first got it. Today with FCE 2.0 and i guess more new apps, I find myself wanting to throw the iMac out a window , sometimes it is just sooooooooooooo slow, but im sure a lot of that is attributed to me. Anywase, upgrading every 2 years or so is fun. The only problem now is that i was just a bout to upgrade to a G5 within this week. As of right now i know i am going to wait at the very least a month just until some more information on this intel stuff comes out and i find out what it will really mean for those who purchase Macs between now and the next 2 years.

On any note, enjoy your iMac

As this is my first ever new mac - its all sweet! I guess its all about experience! maybe in a couple of years with new FCE?FCP I'll be in the same boat until then....

 

[iMeowbot]

I'd like clarification on if we're going back to a 32-bit architecture for all the machines, or will some of them be Itanium/some other 64-bit machine. From what I read, every reference to "Intel processors" means "IA-32". Perhaps there will be a few speed bumps to the PPC lines before the introduction of an Intel 64-bit processor (Itanium or not).

Things really haven't changed at all as far as "bitness" goes.

Under PowerPC Tiger, most code is still the old 32 bit stuff, but 64-bit addressing is possible. There is similar pointer trickery available on late model Intel chips.

Under PowerPC Tiger, you can run non-Aqua programs (in other words, command-line stuff that can be forked/exec'd from a 32-bit Aqua program or the terminal or run as daemons) as real 64-bit code. Intel and AMD X86-64 chips allow this too.

There will be 64 bit support on the new machines, and in fact writing programs to take advantage of 64 bits is one of the major themes of this year's WWDC, going on right now.

So, don't worry too much about the IA-32 references. Those documents are all about porting 32-bit code to 32-bit code.