iGary said:
Windows? Uh, no thanks, that's why I own a Macintosh.
I completely agree with you, but there's no near term OSX solution to running dreamweaver and photoshop on the intel Macs at any kind of decent speed. I've little choice, unfortunately.
I would love a G5 powermac, but I can't justify spending nearly $2,000 at minimum for something that is going to be entirely eclipsed in the near future, excepting those 2 programs, which I don't rely on (yet) for a source of income.
Although the upcoming release of the Mac pro certainly doesn't make current computers any less usable, a lot of people seem to think so. If it works for you now (not *you* in particular, but others), then it will work after new technology comes out.
My reasoning behind wanting to buy the top end, hopefully woodcrest based Xeon Mac Pro in 2 months is that it will be as fast as I need it to be for the next few years. I've never owned a PC that could stay competitive for very long, especially since I used to be overly concerned with video gaming, which is not really something I'm very involved with any longer.
I want to learn more about Apple's pro apps through first hand experience, and possibly take up photography as a hobby in addition to music which is already a hobby of mine (and which logic pro would come in very handy for). All of those applications will run much faster on an intel Mac than they will on a powerpc Mac, so for me, since Photoshop is not really an *essential* tool in my daily life, I can deal with running windows to use it for 6 months if I have to, then enjoy the speed increases once it goes dual binary.
In a situation such as yours, where you (if I've read right around the forums) do photography for a living, then unquestionably I would stay with a G5 mac, especially until any yet-unknown bugs are worked out with the first revision hardware. Like I said earlier, it's not as if your current setup will become instantly worthless.
People need to learn that they should upgrade when it will seriously benefit their day to day activities, and more largely, their productivity. Things like a 30" display for heavy users of aperture, and a laptop for a newspaper columnist are pieces of technology that can literally save hours every week, which ultimately are priceless. Too often people shell out thousands of dollars so they can claim to have the higher GHz, or the higher framerate in a game, only to be begrudgingly leapfrogged within 6 months, to which they'll express their disdain on many tech forums. It's that mentality, I think, which needs to be curbed.
Sorry for the long post, just wanted to try to cover most angles.
