the mactel announcement makes me want to get a mac now

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i have recently made the desicion to switch to mac, and after some deliberation, i have decided that now is the time to buy a mac.

who would want a first gen mactel? there will most likely be numerous problems, and the marriage of apple and intel will defianately not be perfect at that time.

it's kinda like the older products, that are still better. like you could look at the holiday rambler company, a manufactuer of rvs/trailers.

before holiday rambler was bought out, they made the best trailers in the business. after they were bought out, the quality went down. some people say that the pre 1993 or whatever the date is holiday rambler are better than todays.

if i buy a mac now, i will get bare minimum 3 years of being up to date, and will probably not have to upgrade until 2009, having sucked 4 years out of the mac. by that time, mactels will be standard, and they should be pretty good products.
 
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That's a cool way of looking at it for sure.
 
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I would add in the fact that if you wait just a bit after this kind of announcement...you might very well get a deal that you could have only dreamed about getting a month ago.
 
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why are the being called mactel.... we never callled them macpear or better yet macPC
 
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mactel, I don't think is the real name to be used but I wonder if it will change!
 
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mactel... good name how about:
Appletel
iTel
Macintel (from macintosh) :black:
 
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I also made the decision the switch not long ago and was in a bit of doubt after hearing the keynote. Now however I think also think this is a great time to buy. I get time to get used to the UI, get a great deal and anyway, I usually updated my PC's every 2 years so by the time they get the bugs ironed out Ill be ready for my first mactel.
 
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Perhaps the new name for MAC should be the MIC ((M)ac (I)ntel (C)omputer!!!
 
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mactel came from the same place as wintel. As for the name, Apple my call the new system something else. For now, everyone is trying to give is a name, and see which one sticks.

As for the x86 chip if it is a class of chips. Then there could be a new chip set based on it.
 
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I definitely don't like this intel dual-boot with windows crap. I'm going to call it the Sellout2005.

j/k that will never stick... how about the MactelXP?
 
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I dunno. I'm not expecting too many changes in the actual naming convention minus the suffixes. We all hate the move, but I'm still rooting for Apple. And I think I always will. I thought this was going to be the worst thing in the world, but after reading a few common sense comments about what's to expected, the only ones who have work out for them are developers who wrote crappy code in the first place. I am dying for a copy of xcode 2.1. I wanna play around with it :).

Down the road, with all the bull**** Microsoft plans to do with DRM and possibly even controlling what is installed, apple is still a better alternative. Yay for apple :D

My real dilemma is when I should buy my replacement mac. Now? Or should I wait? Either way this Gateway/AMD pos joke of a 64bit processor is going for a long trip on the ol' ebay canal when i do get my mac :D.
 
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I vote Mactel and this is a little something I wrote to daring fireball[url]

I just wanted to comment on the sales going down while people wait for MacTel boxes... I think it might a small amount, but like you mentioned Apple might have some really great deals. Also existing programs work on PPC Macs and new applications will work on both, so there will not be a tiny amount software for the PPC all of a sudden.. the amount will only get larger, while the Intel side of things, the software will be much less.

Now as a business, I will probably pick up a couple PPC's either this next year or right before the MacTel boxes come out, maybe at less of a cost (doubtful) but their life will be very long. Im not an early adopter (still on Panther at least until Tiger reaches .2 status) so I will not adopt MacTel for another couple years probably. At this time they will have a whole lot more software, plus all the little problems will be worked out.

Eventually, I believe, many others will feel the same way, so I really do not think Apple will lose too much on sales during this transitional period.. they actually might sell more as people try to pick up as many PPC Macs as they possibly can!

Just a hunch :)
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mr_silly said:
Perhaps the new name for MAC should be the MIC ((M)ac (I)ntel (C)omputer!!!
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Tell me again why we need a new, nonsensical abbreviation for Media Access Control?
 
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or (i)book for the ones with intel, and (power)book for the ones with PowerPC. Man, if only that would be an actual option. And yes, I know it will never ever ever work like that.
 
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jtheut said:
i have recently made the desicion to switch to mac, and after some deliberation, i have decided that now is the time to buy a mac.

who would want a first gen mactel? there will most likely be numerous problems, and the marriage of apple and intel will defianately not be perfect at that time.

it's kinda like the older products, that are still better. like you could look at the holiday rambler company, a manufactuer of rvs/trailers.

before holiday rambler was bought out, they made the best trailers in the business. after they were bought out, the quality went down. some people say that the pre 1993 or whatever the date is holiday rambler are better than todays.

if i buy a mac now, i will get bare minimum 3 years of being up to date, and will probably not have to upgrade until 2009, having sucked 4 years out of the mac. by that time, mactels will be standard, and they should be pretty good products.
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i am happy I bought my Powerbook . It will have the posterity value as well.It may end being a microsoft like OS licensing thing suppliers shipping Apple compatible Macs.

Pankaj
 

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