On Feb 19, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
On 2/19/06, Markus Hitter <email@hidden> wrote:
Am 19.02.2006 um 18:36 schrieb Michael Bartosh:
(keeping the PPC iMac in production longer, for instance)
??? The iMac G5 is still purchaseable brand new.
AFAIK they're not manufacturing any new product, and they're all sold
out of 17".
Yup. There are stocks in certain places, but I have seen Apple sales
folks really, really work to get customers moved to Intel. Which is
an entirely new code base, requires qualification of a large number
of deployed applications (essentially doubling the deployment work
load, since apps have to be qualified and meet acceptance criteria on
two platforms). Not to mention the work of maintaining parallel load
sets (or system images) with identical user experiences on two
different platforms (with no tools to ease that work flow).
Then there's the idea that this came earlier than Apple originally
projected.. catching some customers off balance. (Developers, too,
I'm sure).
But like I said- it is what it is, which is a great consumer platform.
-mb
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