I sympathize with your software investment anxiety, since I actually pay for the stuff, too. The biggies are Adobe Ilustrator (which, frankly, I don't use that much) and MS Office. Then comes BBEdit and a bunch of shareware. Most everything else is free or even open source, and if there's one class of software which will be in pretty good shape for the transition, it's open source and small programs. Since I have a such an old Mac to upgrade (350 MHz G3), if the low-end Intel-based Mac runs those programs that 800 MHz G4 speeds, I'll be ecstatic and won't bother upgrading those more expensive programs.
If you're just about to buy bigger-ticket software, I guess it could be a little more awkward. The PPC version of Office should be fine on Intel, but still, how much are companies like MS and Macromedia going to ask for new versions ?
Something else that should cushion the pain: much of what Apple supplies with new hardware (all the standard apps, plus iLife, which is not a free upgrade) are first-rate applications that will certainly be native when the new machines ship.
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Date: 2005-06-10 02:50 am (UTC)If you're just about to buy bigger-ticket software, I guess it could be a little more awkward. The PPC version of Office should be fine on Intel, but still, how much are companies like MS and Macromedia going to ask for new versions ?
Something else that should cushion the pain: much of what Apple supplies with new hardware (all the standard apps, plus iLife, which is not a free upgrade) are first-rate applications that will certainly be native when the new machines ship.