Well, with the recent release of Snow Leopard, many people were left in the dust. When the G5 towers came out, many animators and designers flocked to buy them. Well, as many of you know, these towers are capable of running Leopard and all of the other Apple video production applications, and, up until this morning, could run the most current version of Mac OSX. I for one am mad at Apple for doing this. I know that they were all obsessed with reducing the footprint of the Operating System, and I think that that was a good idea. However, on my PowerPC macs, I don't mind having the system footprint being a bit larger, if it means that I can stay current. they could release an Intel and a PowerPC version, and not just one. Neither would have to be very big, as neither would have to be a Universal binary. That is one idea.
A better solution, one which Apple should take up, is to make like the Government and offer a credit towards a like machine. So, if you traded in a G5 Tower, you would get $800 towards a mac pro. Or, if you traded in a Powerbook, or First Generation MacBook (snow leopard incompatible), you would get $300 towards a new MacBook Pro. Server for Server, Mini for Mini. That would be a program that I would be involved in.
All for now!
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