Well, I've had a little over 24 hours now to let this sink in. I thought I would give my uncensored view...

At first I have to say I was in disbeleif, even though I had followed the rumor that Max OS X had been ported to run on Intel since the beginning...

I had called my mom last night & mentioned it to her, and she talked to me as if I was really disappointed... I told her that actually, it insn't necessarily a bad thing...

I'm mainly concerned about the big picture... My biggest concern now is where will I be left 2 years from now... You see I've got a VERY tight budget, and a new computer isn't an option. I had purchased a 3 year warranty on my iBook, which has saved me a couple times. I'm looking at my warrenty being up here in the next 5 months, and am really worried SOMETHING could happen after that, then I'd be without any computer at all...

For the last several months I've been working really hard at keeping my old iMac (Blueberry) running for my girlfriend to use. Right now I need to replace the hard drive (again) and she no longer has a dvd drive (though she does have an external firewire CD-RW)...

At any rate my point here is that, assuming my iBook is still operational in 2007/2008, I highly doubt I will even be considering getting a new inBook due to my financial burdens... So, when will Apple drop the PowerPC support all together? As of now my iBook is a G3, and it's quicly becomming obsolete for new programs... Will Mac OS X 10.5 still work on both? How about 10.6? Will that drop PowerPC all together???

I'm assumming Apple will support PowerPC for a long while, but I'm not looking forward to when support starts waining... And obvously now even if I could buy a new G4 iBook, I'm not so sure I would...

In the long run, assuming I can evenually buy an inBook, I am looking forward to where this leads... Hopefully there will be a noticable price drop... Maybe I can one day buy a dell and install OS X on it with a hack of some kind...

Though one thing I don't like is the idea of loosing some of the apps I commonly use... I tend to get attached to certain applications, and some times use them until a time when I have to scour the internet to re-download the application if I lost it because it's so outdated... I actually remember doing that a week or two ago, but can't remember what for right now... If I've got apps I'm actively using that are destin to die a whorible non-intel compatible death, I'm not going to be too pleased...

However, there is one thing I'm really excited about... The thought of what will come of products such as VirtualPC... I would assume that under an intel processor, such an emulator would emulate very little, and the emulation would be blazing... Furthermore we may end up in a position where a method of porting would allow certain windows applications to run natively on Intel based Macs with little extra work from a developer... Which could mean a huge influx in the number of applicaitons avalible on the Mac... I've read somewhere that some think windows apps may just work on a Mac, however I do not see this as possible... Mainly due to the environment windows apps are used to... The Mac OS X environment isn't even close, so I think it will take a little more to get the two working on the same level...

At this point in time, however, I'm just watching... Sitting here with my G3 iBook, wishing for more but not being able to afford it... So we'll see how things go...

Please wish my current iBook a continued long life for now...