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Will you buy a Mac AFTER they switch to Intel processors?

Will you buy a Mac after they switch to Intel processors?

  • Yes - Mac - Dual boot Tiger/Leopard and Windows XP/Longhorn

    Votes: 69 30.8%

  • Yes - Mac - OS X only

    Votes: 138 61.6%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 15 6.7%

  • No - PC

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • Total voters
    224
GodBless said:
Will you buy a Mac AFTER they switch to Intel processors?
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What type of question is that to pose to a Mac fan???

Of course I'm going to buy one. And I'm not even going to wait for a second generation one either.

I know that some of you guys are big AMD fans, but I'm not one of them. No, I've never owned an AMD based computer, but I worked with quite a few guys who built computers on the side for friends and family, and they never had much luck with AMD. Sooner or later there were always hardware related problems, problems that never appeared in the first place when they used Intel.

Personally, I've always had good solid performance from my Intel chips. I just wish that I could say the same about Windows.
 
Option #2 for me.

I was hoping to buy a new Mac maybe at the end of this summer or Jan of next year (thinking powermac updates would be announced). But now I think I'll wait till some Intel Macs show up to buy. My Dual 1.25 G4 wind tunnel is plenty fast.

I wouldn't dual boot into Windows because I wouldn't want to give Windows access to my mac files. If I get some crazy windows virus that erases chunks of my hard drive, I don't want to lose some important Mac data. I'd rather use Virtual PC at much higher speeds because then it's restricted to it's little disk image and I still have access to my Mac files. Some people would say to just boot off a second drive into Windows, but then I would still need to mount my Mac drive to get access to those files (thereby opening the Mac drive up to viruses and malicious scripts). Virtual PC seems safer.

~ Mr.T
 
Option 1 for me

I definitely like the possibility of using both OS's. I've used an apple for the last 5 years however I've been limited in what I can do with VPC when it comes to engineering apps. So I'll most likely be using mac 95% of the time and windows 5% of the time for when I have to run engineering software.....

I was hesitant at first about the move to intel, but now that I've gotten over the shock it's a good thing.

Also I've got a question. SJ mentioned that apple built OS X independent of what chip it used, so therefore in the future if further PPC development takes off there is no reason that Apple could not use both chips even 10 years down the line. Since Xcode enables universal binaries then what would stop them from using both chips? I believe SJ is frustrated with the PPC chips for laptops so I believe this is the reason for going intel. So then the PPC could still be used in the Powermac while the intel could still be used in the laptops. However, I think intel has something up their sleeve that made SJ move to x86. Who knows what intel may pull out of there butt.

Nuc
 
Hell yeah!

ANd I will run WIndows for sure too. SO I only have to have 1 computer. ANd I will probably Triple boot some custom version of linux too. w000t

I cant wait till my Powermac has a "intel inside" sticker on it.

OWNED
 
I'm the first person to chose undecided - mostly because I've never had a mac before - my first one is currently "being processed" by apple. If I like it (which I'm fairly certain I will, as I've used friends' machines before), then I'll most definitly get another one in two years when it's time to replace my current desktop, regardless of what processer it has inside. If, for some reason, i decide I don't like it, then I'll get myself another dell (unlike many on these boards, I've had a dell for 5 years, and other than a few random visits from the blue screen of death, I've had no problems whatsoever with it).
 
Nermal said:
Have a poll :)
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Thanks.

I misread Arn's poll. Ironically the way that I misread it was something worth thinking about too so I made a thread about it.
 
GodBless said:
Will you buy a Mac AFTER they switch to Intel processors?:
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I will buy my next Mac when I need a new computer.

I am not sure when that will be. However, I am concerned that I get the Mac experience. I am not concerned so much about the engine that the computer uses.

Although, as an early Apple adopter and developer, I would have rather not seen the switch to Intel just because I grew up in the Intel Outside days.

But Intel has produced good chips in the past and will continue in the future. Sure they've have some false starts such as the P4. But they also had some really cool chips in the early days.

Hopefully, in the next couple of years we will see why the change was made.

So in that light, when I need a new Mac, I will buy what Apple offers regardless if it is pre Intel or after Intel.

I am confident in Apple and the leadership of SJ. We will get through this and in a couple of years probably look back and wonder what the issue was concerning the switch.

Sushi
 
Sure, why not? My iBook should last until I need a new Mac, and if I don't like how Intel has changed the Mac experience, I should be able to run Windows on it ... though there's very little chance that I will. I like OS X a lot. Hopefully, developers like universal binaries.
 
mad jew said:
Isn't Option 1 unsupported?
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Yeah - but thats the same with every PC. :eek: :D ;)

I go for 1, because I have some Apps that just don't run on a Mac and maybe to play some games. But I will not install Longschrott. I still have a Win98SE and that will be it (if it works - kind of doubt it)

Cheers
 
tech4all said:
Question: If someone did run Windows with an Intel-based Mac, could a (Windows) virus infect the whole computer?
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Technically the answer is no; however...

If these new Macs use a partition table like the ones most x86 machines (Windows or Linux) have now, then the virus could corrupt the partition table and it'd be a bugger to get it back. It can be done though (I've had to do it).

For that matter even though Windows doesn't natively understand HFS+, it does see the partitions and so could be used to wipe them.

But if you're asking if a Windows virus could get to the data files on the Mac partition(s) and mess with them - the answer is no, unless you've got some utility installed that'd give read/write access to HFS+ partitions (i.e. MacDrive).
 
Where's the option "5. I'll buy a PPC Mac off ebay"?

There's also the option. "6. No - RISC" missing.

And option "7. 5, then 6 or Java machine"
 
I will definitely buy a mac if OS X doesn't run on anything else but a Mac.

If it runs on other PC hardware; why not build what I need?

I know and I read the macrumors.com home page which said "Apple, of course, is not offering Mac OS X for the PC, but instead offering Intel-based Macs" but who says Apple's game plan might change with Leopard?

If Apple wants to run OS X on most standard X86 hardware then they will need many built-in drivers for hardware in Leopard and make many other major and time consuming changes to the OS.

I hope they release a new file system soon without all the annoying invisible .DS_Store files. Maybe they will support NTFS as a standard or something or at least be easily compatible with it so it networks with Windows a lot easier.

They might even do these major changes with a future OS say 10.6 or 10.7 if they want to totally kill Longhorns "revolutionary" features with something twice as good for everything Longhorn has with Leopard. Apple's game plan could change a lot by the time I get another computer so who knows what will happen.

Apple said about a year ago that they had no plan to go with Intel processors. Now they say they have no plan to make OS X run on standard hardware. So why not consider the possibilities?
 
I cant wait until I have an iBook with a dual core Pentium-M in it with some real power. One thing I have missed switching over to Apple computers is the gaming I enjoyed for so many years on PC's. If the Intel switch means PC level gaming in OS X on my Mac then I am just overjoyed! If not then I will probably keep what Macs I have for regular stuff, and get a good Pentium-M based PC notebook with a good videocard to enjoy my gaming again, even if it means using Windows :(
 
I'd be happy with #1 or #2. It would be nice to have Windows running for those rare moments I need it. (And those moments are rare.)

The key is OSX. As long as I run OS X on state-of-the-art and beautiful and quiet hardware, I couldn't care less about the move to Intel.

And if I get Windows to boot, great. If not, no loss.
 
Eventually we will all have to buy a MacTel, however I just got my PowerBook and updated to Adobe CS2 so I won't be buying a new Mac in the next year.

On the other hand I certainly won't buy the first revision of a new MacTel, I'll wait until the bugs are worked out and get a Rev B or C.
 
Undecided.

I'm not committing to anything before I know what we're talking about. I want to know which architecture they're using, and I want to see more than a couple of developer kits running "in the wild" for a while ( :rolleyes: ).

So we're talking Rev. B iBook/PowerBook before I'm, even potentially, ready to buy anything...
 
I can't wait for the new Macs, I love my PowerBook and I love my Power Mac but these new Intel boxes should just be amazing, it's a great time. Power Mac Dual Dual-Core Conroe 2.5 GHz (per core) - sounds bloody good to me!
 
I will certainly be getting an Intel-based Mac. Although i was sceptical about the advantages of Apple making the move to Intel, know that it has sunk in, I am getting increasingly excited about it. And I will be due for an uppgrade by the time they are released. Brilliant!

Oh, i'm undecided whether to go with option 1 or 2. Will wait until the time to decide (and see if option 1 is actually possible)

:)
 
I'll probably have my order in for a PowerBook the day that they are launched (MWSF 2006?). As a laptop is not likely to be a great gaming machine no need for dual boot to windows (and harddrive space tends to be precious on laptops)
 
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