It's really interesting to see the number of posts here that talk about PowerPC as though staying the PPC course is an ideological posiiton that's important to prove a point.
Just out of curiosity, to whom are you proving the point? It seems like doing this is really just tightening the noose around your own ability to get things done in a reasonable manner
Speaking only for myself, but I think others here might agree
It's become an idealogical position because my choice has been attacked. I choose, either through desire or lack of finances to continue with PowerPC Macs. For other people, my decision is illogical and unsustainable. They leave their Intel forums here on MR to come into our threads and personally inform us that we are all wrong.
The only way to rectify the situation in their eyes is for us to junk our old Macs and rush out and buy a brand new Mac. Then and only then will we be given any respect.
These people purposely go out of their way to come in here and blast us. We do not go to the Intel sections and lay into the Intel owners about their choices. I choose to own a PowerPC Mac. Why is that any business of theirs and why is my choice inferior or any less valuable? My choice does not affect their finances. It does not affect their use of their own computers. Yet, it is a personal crusade for these people.
My PowerPC Macs work for the purposes I have them for. They do the job and I throw money at them because I want to. I don't care whether that makes any financial sense or if that can be justified or not on someone's accounting sheets. I do it because I enjoy the feeling these machines give me and I like making these old machines perform. I'm a tinkerer.
Many of us also own Intel Macs, but we all have our own reasons for continuing to own and purchasing PowerPC Macs. Some time very soon I will own my first Intel Mac and it will be put to a specific purpose and the PowerPC Mac it replaces will have another purpose. I don't think it is tightening the noose around my ability to get things done by using PowerPC. My time schedule is not bound by anyone else's standards. If my own Macs complete things within my schedule why does that matter to anyone else?
As to whom we are proving the point to, it is those people that say only Intel Macs are capable. I deny that attitude every time I sit down at my PowerPC Macs. I don't understand why I have to adhere to this attitude when I have perfectly capable Macs that are not Intel. But those people seem to think I have to for some reason.
