You can’t stop innovation or progress so stop tilting at windmills. (Now if I could just convince my Systems staff to let me get a PowerMac…) If I want to replace it with a machine that cost the same as this machine when bought new, then I’m looking at a g5 box.Īt work right now, since there is no 64bit OS that runs natively the programs we need to run (Omni Page, Fine Text, Dreamweaver, Adobe CS … etc), I’d say we’re fine with what we have.īut I can guarantee you that in 4 years when my desktop workstation is replaced, it will have a 64 bit processor and will run a 64 bit OS. Hell, if I want to replace my PowerMac with another PowerMac, I have a single non 64 bit choice. But in a year or 3, it’s all I’m going to be able to buy. In a year or so, the prices will be the same.ĭo I need 64 bits in my job? No. Look dood, since the the 64 bit desktop workstations on the market right now pretty much cost what the machines they replaced cost, you’re missing the point. In the real world where people work for a living and they have to explain why they need to spend the companies cash on a new 64-bit computers your response would get you fired in a heart beat.> You have not answered my question at all.