Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Jun 2003 15:32 UTC
I was present at Apple's WWDC yesterday and witnessed one of the historical moments in Apple's history, the introduction of their 64-bit platform. Am I impressed? The answer is complicated. I was happy to see Apple moving on and deliver. But I would have expected nothing less from a 4 billion tech company who had the need to catch up with the "other" platform, the 32-bit PC. You all heard by now what's new in yesterday's press releases and news coverings. But here is a wrap up of the first day of the conference and a commentary on what Apple really announced yesterday, underneath its surrounding distortion field.
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Well, lets be completely honest here. If you want to use the Microsoft compiler, it is available free of charge in the Windows SDK. The only downside is that you need to manuall tweak via switchs and there is no IDE.
On the otherside, GCC is crap on Windows for a reason, because the majority of the development effort doesn't go into Windows version but for the majority of people who use *NIX, also, one has to consider the fact that PE isn't the nicest thing to write for and from what I have heard, it is terribly documented vs the clean and standard ELF follows.
Anyway, back to this article, I agree with Eugenia Loli-Queru regarding the pricing of $1999 for the workstation, IMHO, if they priced their low end at around $1800 then they would really grab a market. To make it even more tempting, why not offer a monitor/PowerMac bundle. Who on earth DOESN'T buy a computer without a monitor?