New Powermacs, err upgraded Powermacs.

[Ace]

Hey. . .watch it wrath. . .you forget so easily your who is your match  

However, I just thought I'd rebuke Ace a little. . .while it's true in actuality that almost exclusively professionals and the like use PowerMacs, that needn't be the case.  Users such as ourselves, who have equal desire for power but no use for dual processors, should not be excluded from the top-of-the-line machines.  Our PC brethren have full access to the latest and greatest for all users. . .Mac should be the same way.  

I want to have the best Mac I can afford, but only to the extent that I'll use it.  I shouldn't have to buy a lesser machine simply to avoid having 2 processors.

Loud, about the only power users who have a great desire for power but no use for dual processors are people who use their Macs almost solely for gaming. This group is so infintesimally small (if it even exists at all) that it it is not worth it to Apple financially to cater to them.

Maybe I'm missing something, but can you tell me who else would need a 1.42ghz G4 rather than a 1ghz G4 and would not have a use for multiple processors?

[Mr. Lothario]

     Maybe you're looking at the dual processor issue the wrong way 'round. If dual processor Macs have good market penetration, perhaps porting companies will go to the trouble to enable SMP support in the games they release. On the other hand, they probably wouldn't.

[kami]

I'd love a dual processor if I had the money, but I don't, I think it's silly to get another one just for programs like PS to run faster and for the computer to be able to multitask better (my Cube runs great with multitasking), I don't think a single processor would make multitasking much slower than dual processors. And then there's the heat factor, another processor makes another fan necessary and then you get the windtunnel G4's. The new macs have been relieved of much of that problem but still, it's just unnecessary for a guy like me, someone who would like a good computer for gaming and amateur PS'ing perhaps.