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Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled.	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Serenak: [QB] JFW If you want/need new Macs go buy them, I don't see this changeover really being any worse then the 68k to PPC System 7 period was. In 2-3 years time your Macs will still be running fine and although you might start to look at the newer models with envy you will no doubt get a good couple of years more out of them before you have to replace them... Why will they be "forced" into obsolescence any faster than they are now? So maybe they'll be stuck at 10.5 (or perhaps 10.6) but they'd be struggling to keep up with newer models by then anyway (PPC, AMD, x86, OMG, BBQ... whatever). I've got Macs dating back to dot and they all work fine, the SE is still at 6.0.7, some are stuck at 7.6, some at 8.1, my Beige G3 ought to run X 10.2 but won't (not reliably) so is at 9.2. OK, so I can't run the latest greatest software on them but you can type a letter in Claris Works 1.0 or MacWrite II just as well as you can in InDesign CS or MS Word 10.x and you can produce a school newsletter or kid's essay in PageMaker 4 or Word 5.1 without breaking a sweat. Hell when I started on a Mac IIcx PageMaker 4, Illustrator 3 and Photoshop 2 was the cutting edge At work I have a G5 2GHz DP, sure the switch to Intel is gonna miff me, and maybe I'll have to consider an upgrade a year earlier than I would have but as long as my machine can keep handling the customers' work it is a good machine (and to be honest we could produce a lot of our "in house only" work on a 7200 in Illustrator and PageMaker c1996). Computers can be chucked because they're old or you can find a use for them. Most Macs serve 5-6 years front line service tops in my experience. I doubt this change will reduce that by much more than the relentless advance of technology would in any event... Go buy your Macs or if you think your current ones will last you another year or so wait and see what happens.... [/QB][/QUOTE]