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Why do you write:

"There are no multi-core systems on the PPC"

There are many multi-core PPC systems. There are even quad-core PowerMac G5s.

I was really, really hoping for ZFS as the default file system sooner rather than later. HFS+ is a big joke (Case Insensitive, Unicode Normalization...etc)

Not enough to stop me from making my next purchase from apple, but still an annoyance

IMHO: That site is a joke.

Basically 10.6 will break a lot of old apps and screw old PPC customers, but it will be good for the enterprise.
Okay .. once you start catering to enterprises breakling compability is not really appreciated anymore .. so maybe it is a good choice to have a fairly "future-proof" base.
That said: I don't think OSX has a lead on competitors _overall_ .. so waiting to release new features for 2 more years might be not such a good idea.

Who knows what Windows7 or (K)Ubuntu 10.10 will be like?

A true UNIX must be portable and multi-platform. Drop PowerPC support is a non-sense, it's a Mac OS X feature, a technical advantage over the competition. You can't drop that advantage for free.

There is no quicker way to destroy OSN as a news source than by linking to Roughly Drafted. There is a reason why it is curiously neglected, and its not because of anti-Apple conspiracies. But you will have to find that out for yourself. What will happen is this. As soon as you select yourself as one of the only places on the net prepared to regularly link to it, you will be bombarded with a flood of stories from a horde of apparently different people.

They will all, these stories, say one of the same things. Apple computers are cheaper than PCs (after you add in various ridiculous costs to the PCs, Apple has larger market share than reported (after you double Apple sales by separately counting hardware and software), Apple security issues are malicious black propaganda by an anti-Apple news establishment. There are various convoluted reasons why every decision Apple has ever made was right. Apple has a brilliant master plan which is exemplified by its latest move, which has been universally misunderstood, but which will result in its total domination of [pick one: the Web, mobile phones, laptops, desktops, music downloads, TVs....] And so on.

This view of RD is generally accepted in the Mac world. Here for example is Technovia, quoting in support TUAW:

Posts like this that use underhanded techniques and shoddy math to prove a biased point aren't helping the Mac community. In fact, they're making it look even worse because, once found out, they are (rightfully) transformed into key evidence for clueless Apple fanaticism, which can easily harm the reputation of almost anyone with something genuinely educated and relevant to say about Apple or their products, whether it's a good or *gasp* unpleasant statement.

Unsurprisingly, the post that TUAW is referring to is from Roughly Drafted, which can only be described as the lunatic fringe of Mac fandom. While it's perhaps understandable that some Mac users will want to "strike back" against what they see as media bias against the platform, as TUAW puts it:

"These wholly inaccurate and misleading articles need to stop if computer users are going to learn the genuine advantages (and even disadvantages) of Apple and their products. Lying to grab attention for Apple may briefly taste sweet, but helping consumers make an educated choice (no matter what the outcome) based on pure, true merit takes the cake."

When your own Party starts to describe your agitation on behalf of the cause as 'lunatic', you're in deep trouble.

But, you will have to find all this out for yourself. Meanwhile, if you are going to start linking to RD, it would be nice if you can introduce some blocking feature into the site so we can filter it out. Its the Slashdot/Roland Picquepaille problem. Please help those of us who simply do not want to be reminded of its existence.

Edited 2008-06-19 07:37 UTC