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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (45084)	6/7/2005 2:02:04 PM
From: Dan Fleuris	Respond to of 213177

"The next killer app will probably make use of hardware only available on the Intel side (eg, you seen any PCI-e graphics on Powermacs lately?) so the ease of dual-compiling software makes no difference at all. Add in the way Intel integrates goodies into its chipsets (eg wireless) and it seems pretty clear to me that the PPC and x86 families are going to be divergent from Day 1." All that means is I would have to switch platforms to use this mythical, hypothetical next killer app, which I would have to have done anyway, since it wouldn't work on PPC. So I'm really no worse off than before. And when I do switch to get this killer app, it will be all that much easier since I can keep most of my Mac legacy applications. So I gain there and only lose what I would have had by waiting two or three years for this hypotehtical killer app. Looks like its close to a wash. Dan