It’s taken me a good part of the week to digest Mac’s latest announcements. Now that I’ve had the time necessary, I’m coming up empty. I don’t know how I feel about the new Intel based Macs.

Unlike those die hard Mac users who resisted OSX, I’m not one to hang on to the old because I’m a fanatic. I became a Mac user again in 2002 when they offered a superior operating system, OSX. The stability of the system, based on Unix, was obvious. The security, and interface were huge bonuses.

In the mid-90’s I switched form Mac to Windows. Win 95 was faster, cheaper, stronger, better. Then I switched to Mac for the same reasons in 02′. What does the processor switch do to me? Not sure.

After reading through all of Apple’s hype, Mac World’s take on it, and other blogs around the block I know several things. The new systems may or may not run your current extra software. They have a technology called Rosetta which should allow your current applications to run on the new architecture. But really system intensive programs might bog down. Gee, I bet that will affect my Adobe Creative Suite for sure.

Software makers are already getting ready with “Universal” software that will work with the new processors. That’s good. And really, if you’re buying a new machine, you might want to buy the new versions of your favorite tools anyway. Forced upgrades anyone? That’s one thing I don’t like, but we’ve all seen it often.

My bottom line. If the processor switch does not affect the stability and security of OSX then I’m not going to complain (much). I’m also not running out and getting a new IMac or latop tomorrow either. Patience on this issue. I’ve got my trusty G4 IBook, and my G5 box.

One thing I haven’t seen much on…..what’s going to happen to the G4’s & G5’s??? Anyone have a guess?