i386 support - wrong direction (Score 2)

I work as a designer on a Mac all day, and come home to linux. I am, in other words, a mac user with a strong understanding of UNIX. I have only glanced at Mac OS X (I don't have a G4 to spare...), and that was the unfortunate Mac OS X Server (which I replaced with a linux server).

I am excited about OS X, but worried. I am mainly worried about support for the Software I depend on (Adobe Illustrator, QuarkExpress, Adobe Photoshop), for the little plugins for that software I use, and for the drivers for most of my hardware (high-end scanners with Photoshop plug-ins for their fuctionality, etc.). Furthermore, there will be about a two year period where I am working with a mixed environment of MacOS and MacOSX computers (and Linux and Win 2000 servers - we like to use the right tool for the right job). How well will everything work together?

With all this confusion, I cannot afford to switch both my OS and my hardware. Sollutions like multiple processors are better for the type of job I do. Photoshop in MacOS 9 gains a huge performance boost with multiple processors (while the rest of the OS gains some instability).

This talk is good, I guess. If nothing else it will scare Motorolla into increasing the clock speed on the G4...