[MPlayer-dev-eng] osx now on intel cpu's

[Chris Zubrzycki]

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On Jun 7, 2005, at 7:21 AM, Luca Barbato wrote:

> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> Guys, what's all this gloom about?  Isn't one of the advantages of  
>> using
>> free software the fact that you don't have to buy a new machine every
>> other year?
>
> No gloom at all, probably just because I'm ore a Linux/PPC guy. If I
> were somebody that believe that MacOSX was/is the best platform  
> ever and
> I invested lots of time on learning how to code for it... well I'd be
> more than disappointed because I'm lacking now a huge pr machine.
>
>
>> Even if Apple will stop selling PPCs in a year or two, they
>> will still be an important platform for free software for the next  
>> five
>> years at least.

Exactly. They are selling ppc macs for another 2years, and they will  
get faster. Don't forget some mplayer devs are using premiums still!
The mac will still be a mac, just with a different engine. I also  
like the ppc architecture, but I say there is at least 7 years before  
most of the ppc macs are not supported and gone. That's a long time  
(but not long enough).

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