New Macs are out...my thoughts

[f700es]

Looks very, very nice. Apple has addressed a few of my main gripes (FrontSideBus speed, APG Pro/8x, DDR ram and bus to really use it and optical in/out on the sound card and serial ATA hard drives). Really a nice looking machine. My comments:
Why only one optical drive slot?? Come on, please do not tell me that switching cd/dvd's while coping one to another is faster than 2 drives.
Why is Apple showing benchmarks showing a 64bit cpu against 32bit cpus? Why no comparrisons to the Athlon64 (Opteron) and Intel Itanium?
Why add serial ATA and then only have space for 2 drives?
Where is the consumer tower with no monitor for $1000? This is one of the PC world's strong sellers.
All in all a nice addition to the Mac line.
Any way my $.02

[CADTutor]

Why no AutoCAD? :lol:

[f700es]

Why no AutoCAD? :lol:

FYI: Autodesk has been issuing a petition for thoughts of returning to the Mac platform. They droped it back in r12 days (when Windows NT came out), they also dropped Unix versions as well. Since the Mac OS at the time did not have protected memory nor "true" multitasking I guess they saw the NT route (as well as larger user base) as a better option. Since OSX finally addresses these issues and others it might be worth a return. Macs are starting to come down in price as well. The new single G5 mac starts at $1999 USD which is not to far from a similar speced Athlon64 machine.

http://thinksecret.com/news/autocad.html

[SkyeHack]

is it true you can configure the G5 to be as much as 10 thousand doallrs?

[gcp310]

macs ROCK! and typical autodork form, no support.
funny when other programs like archicad and vectorworks have dual platform. Why not support a platform that was designed for graphics and is known across the world as the default OS for graphic design.

one day in a perfect world,autocad will return to the mac,oneday

G

(a cad user on a betamax OS)