[making_things]

Summary: The Author's contention is that Apple will abandon support for it's existing lineup sooner rather than later based on the history of it's prior platform transition to intel. So, why bother buying a Mac now when it's going to be abandoned sooner rather than later.

[ddingus]

Apple supported other transitions nicely, and for a reasonable time. That prior history was reasonable.

They have little to gain by not doing exactly that again.

[rasz]

Last time it was 3 years to obsolescence at a time CPUs sped up by a factor of 2. This time you will be switching to slower CPUs and maybe reaching 1.5x in 3 years.

[ddingus]

The difference being plenty of Intel options available.