[poll] should i wait for intel macs?

i have finaly managed to persuade my father to get me a mac, so i took him to the store and showed him all these amaizing stuff. of course he liked them all and acctually he said that i should think what i want ( for first i wanted an iPod ) and that i will surely have to wait some time, but maybe he will get me one he said. what he wanted to know was if he could run these apps on it, he is an architect and needs some apps for his work, which he thought might be interesting to run at mac also, so i said there was some way how to run windows apps on macs, but i dunno if its fully useable. so, i want to ask mac users out there, can you run woindows apps on mac? if so, what do you need for it? can you run even more complicated apps such as these for architects are? if so, are these fairly fast or slow?

and also i would like to know if i should wait for intel macs... will mac mini be in intel version as well?? because some guy in the store said it wouldnt, and if there will be mac mini with intel processors, when do you expect first onez to be released???

#344516

i believe the new mac mini's will be released sometime early next year.

#344518

Probably should wait a little more - no point in buying something if its gonna be upgraded in a month or two... plus right before, and after the intel minis come out you'll be able to get a new g4 mini for much less on ebay or somethin

#344534

ok, thats all cool, but where from do you know these intel minis comin in january? i tryied to find some articles about when the first intel macs will be announced and didnt find any and the guy in the store told me that they might not even be released ... what do you think of this??? did he only want to sell me what they had at the moment???

#344567

the guy in the store told me that they might not even be released

uhu... yeah... no intel macs he says? What does he expect? A 3ghz g5 in a mini or an ibook? lol... I assure you, the intel macs will be released very soon... not neceseraly 5 mins after Jobs' speach - but soon nontheless :)

#344582

voted no

because most applications for the mac are native of G5, if you have an intel, rosetta will be the girl.in.the.middle to help you using it...

but anyways, a new app, designed for intel, is also designed for G5, natively... and the actual iMac is kinda the final revision... and as always, 1st revisions kinda suck...

go for a G5!!!

#345387

Need it, get it now. Don't need it now, wait.

Also this is Apple Hardware not GD.

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#345394

thinksecret has reported new intel mac would be revealed next week (on the 10th) so you may wanna wait till then :P :P

#345556

I am also thinking about buying a mac mini. What are the advanteages to the IntelMacs over the macs running G4 processors? Just speed? I find that the macs run quick enough already. Is there any other advatages?

#345939

im useing one right now :) and i can tell you, definetly wait.

#345971

MMSF 06 is here (well 2 more days... ) let's keep our fingers crossed... the latest yonah benchmarks have been very promising .. so yea.. wait for it man, 2 days might make the difference between YAY and AWW...

(did anyone see the new Travelmate 8200??? intel dual core 2.0Ghz, ati x1600 256mb dedicated and 256 and be borrowed from memory graphic card, 2Ghz ddr3 ram, built in 1.3mp camera, 6 hour battery life...... ) -> jaw drops

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2697

edit:

sorry my mistake :P its actually in 5 days... i kicks off the 9th... got mixed up with my dates ...

#346120

i thought it would be on the 10th!!?!?!!?!

#346123

the expo starts the 9th, but Jobs' keynote is on the 10th

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