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Should I buy the new Intel Imac or find an old one?
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<blockquote data-quote="lil" data-source="post: 176817"><p>First of all, seriously, and no offence, scour the forums for hundreds of excellent responses to those exact questions.</p><p></p><p>If you are worried about you Mac becoming redundant in 1-2 years time, that would be foolhardy thinking; that won't happen. Jobs does a marvellous job at making everything sugar coated, but the estimates of the speed gains I think are deliberately misleading. It has been pointed out by others that one minute the PowerPC is where it is at - hammering the Intel processors, and now it's the other way around. Which means the truth lays in between somewhere.</p><p></p><p>In short, anything that is not intel native and that is most Mac software at present, will have to run on an emulator and that regardless of what Steve Jobs wants to say is going to be slower than your current G5 chip.</p><p></p><p>However please look at previous threads and use the search, these questions have been asked over and over and it would be a shame for you to miss out on the wisdom imparted in those posts.</p><p></p><p>Vicky</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lil, post: 176817"] First of all, seriously, and no offence, scour the forums for hundreds of excellent responses to those exact questions. If you are worried about you Mac becoming redundant in 1-2 years time, that would be foolhardy thinking; that won't happen. Jobs does a marvellous job at making everything sugar coated, but the estimates of the speed gains I think are deliberately misleading. It has been pointed out by others that one minute the PowerPC is where it is at - hammering the Intel processors, and now it's the other way around. Which means the truth lays in between somewhere. In short, anything that is not intel native and that is most Mac software at present, will have to run on an emulator and that regardless of what Steve Jobs wants to say is going to be slower than your current G5 chip. However please look at previous threads and use the search, these questions have been asked over and over and it would be a shame for you to miss out on the wisdom imparted in those posts. Vicky [/QUOTE]
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