Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

> It's so offensive. I waited a year in a half for a
> 64bit operating system for my G5. So much hype. Two
> weeks after Tiger comes out, I find out "the wabe f
> the future" has been already been issued an expiration
> date. I wish I could sue. Not for the money, just the
> principle.

Sigh. Get real. You thought there is ever going to be a processor or computer 
generation without an expiration date? The Intel Macs will be the generation 
coming after the current one. Does it matter whether your G5 will be 
obsoleted by a G6 or an Intel chip? The only way companies can keep going is 
if they start designing a followup of their product as soon as the current 
version hits the market. So yes, when you buy it, the expiration date is 
already set. Whether it's a coffee machine, a car or a computer.

By the way, the Intel Macs will still run OSX (by then Tiger will probably be 
obsoleted by OS10.5 with whatever predator name they give it) so I don't see 
what you're complaining about.

Ok back when the 386 came out, it was understandable that people thought this 
was THE cpu that would last for decades. But after 486, PI, PII, PIII, PIV 
and on the PPC side G3, G4 and G5, we know better. And if it weren't for the 
Intel story, the expiration on the G5 would have still been close at hand 
because of IBM's announcement of dual core PPC's, be it called G6 or not, and 
since this announcement still two series of G5 machines have been released, 
maybe even the one you bought.

A new generation of computers will do nothing to change the one you currently 
have (even if they have a different processor family). The only change is in 
your head, when you'll be considering your system lacking of features or 
possibilities once you see them in the new one, or in software requiring the 
new machine. You'll still have all the equipment and software you paid for, 
and it will be doing at least what it's doing now.

Sure you could sue, if it weren't for the total lack of anything to sue about.

Maurits.