Re: "Apple: Mactels won't support Vista"
- From: see_signature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jon)
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:09:44 +0200
Davoud <star@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Laughter and applause? Has Apple estimated the number of sales they
will lose by being unable to support Vista!? A lot of Macheads (like
me, with six OS X Macs and one Windows machine) /must/ have a machine
that can run Windows. No, there is /not/ a Mac equivalent or other
workaround for all Windows software. I was so ready to dump my Windows
laptop for a MacBook Pro (have three PowerBooks) and have an all-in-one
solution to support all the things I /like/ to do (Mac) as well as a
few chores I /have/ to do (Windows).
VPC or an equivalent, running native on an Intel processor, should be
able to help. We are all of three months into the transition - have a
little patience? Anyway, this is as much MS's responsibility as Apple's
- I mean about Vista not supporting EFI - isn't it? Not that they care,
of course.
Let me see if I understand. We've downgraded from 64bits to 32 bits,
lost Altivec, lost FW 800. (I have more than two terabytes of external
FW 800 storage.) What's next? I don't see how I can buy a MacBook or
other Mactel before Vista is released. I can't have an unlimited number
of computers, so I have to look carefully at Vista before deciding
whether my next computer will be a Mactel or a Wintel.
Alsoo, we have not seen the transition of two of three PowerBooks into
MacBook Pros (I hate the name, though...), nor of the Power Mac G5 or
Xserve series. I don't think Apple can afford to leave the 64 bit market
(e.g., large scientific number-crunching setups like Virginia Tech
depend on that), but the 64 bit versions of these particular Intel
processors just aren't here before the end of the year at least.
My personal belief is that 64 bits and a number of the other high-end
features you request will indeed arrive, but not before the Pro desktops
and servers are on Intel. Whether that will include a laptop remains to
be seen. At least initially, it doesn't look that way.
--
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