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Originally Posted by zoranb She should also worry about what all those people that bought G5 macs and without any notice she upgraded to Intels. |
Without any notice? Apple most definitely
did let everyone know that the transition to Intel was imminent. It wasn't a surprise at all -- Apple announced that they were transitioning to the Intel processor long before they actually transitioned -- months, in fact. Maybe the announcement that they were going with Intel could be deemed a "surprise," but hey, they let us know, then they did it. It's not like they just switched processors on us out of the blue.
Just because a new computer is released doesn't negatively impact the performance of your current machine. It doesn't somehow magically run any slower than it did when you bought it. It doesn't make your performance suffer. It doesn't affect your computer in the slightest -- your computer performs just as advertised, and just as it did the moment you bought it.
You bring up the point of Adobe's CS2, saying that performance on the older machines is degraded. Well, CS2 runs under Rosetta, which negatively impacts the performance and probably makes it run slower than it would on an iMac G5 -- so, again, how is the G5's performance "degraded" in relation to CS2 on the Intel Macs? CS2 runs
faster on the G5 iMacs than it does on the Intel iMacs... so... ???
I understand the frustration at seeing a newer, faster, better computer being release at the same price point as your old computer, but the only suggestion I can make is, "get used to it -- now." Everyone does it and it's perfectly natural. Apple is not going to stop innovating simply to give its users "warm, fuzzy" feelings that their 6-month-old computer is still top-of-the-line.
You purchase computers for your needs. If you need more power tomorrow, then wait until tomorrow to purchase a computer and see if there's a faster one. If you need more power now, buy now but realize there may be something even better tomorrow... this is nothing new -- it's been happening since the 1980s, and the best thing you can do is get used to it and don't let it get under your skin.