People have been asking me what I think of the new Intel Macs so I thought I would throw up a rant about some random things I’ve been thinking of.

Personally I’m not going to switch to an Intel Mac til they get the Pro Applications (Final Cut Pro, Motion, Aperture) all ready to run natively on Intel. Supposedly that will not come til March which is fine by me. My prediction about the performance of these programs is that they will run beautifully on the new Intel Core Duos. With an upgraded video card and dual core processors, Motion will run very well and Final Cut Pro render times will shrink.

From a work standpoint, this switch to Intel is a nightmare waiting to happen. I can just see a proud professor holding his shiny new MacBook Pro and asking me to set up everything just like he had it on his Powerbook, only to find that his File Maker Pro and his specialized statistics software won’t run well in Rosetta. He’ll curse at me and rant and rave about how much he paid for this thing and why won’t it run the programs he needs. Blah blah blah….sigh. I really hope all the companies release their universal binaries soon. For the sake of my job.

All in all, I think the switch to Intel was needed and will be vital in growing Apple’s market share. I just feel this transition year will not be as fun for me as it should be.

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