Apple Misrepresentation

I feel Apple has misrepresented the MacBook Pro.
Various marketing hypsters made claims that the MBP would run all OS-X PPC applications 'natively' on the Intel platform. I waited nearly 6 months before making the switch to give the product time to settle in and for vendors to do whatever they have to to adjust their applications.
So after purchasing a 17"/2.16GHz MBP last week I try to install PGP Desktop 9.06 and get "PGP Desktop cannot be installed on this computer."
I go to PGP's site and sure as **** there is a post in the forums stating that the intel compatibility is 'forthcoming' in an unspecified 'future release'. This is just wrong.
As a consumer, I really don't care whether the problem is Apple's or PGP's. I just want the computer to work and my applications to run.
I NEVER would have purchased this hardware had I known that one or more of my mission critical applications would not work.
To add insult to injury, Apple decided to lose the PCMCIA slot for "ExpressCard/34". To date (and a year after the MBP announcemnt) there are only 4 ExpressCards that are compatible with OS-X. This is unacceptable. The very least Apple could do was to provide a free PCMCIA adapter with each MBP until sufficient EC/34 cards were available.
I thought I had researched the MBP pretty thoroughly before committing to a purchase, but I apparently failed to dig deep enough.
I do not recommend this product. It is simply not ready for general market release, nor will it be until more applications are ported and broader variety of ExpressCards are available at my local POS retailer.

I feel Apple has misrepresented the MacBook Pro.
Various marketing hypsters made claims that the MBP
would run all OS-X PPC applications 'natively' on the
Intel platform.
All? Apple's positioning on that has been pretty clear:
"Rosetta technology runs most of your current Mac OS X software on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs." (apple.com/intel)
I NEVER would have purchased this hardware had I
known that one or more of my mission critical
applications would not work.
Did it not occur to you to contact the software vendor of your mission critical app and ask them if their product would run on an intel-based mac? That's all the 'research' you needed to do, and could have been done in short order.
Sorry bro not feeling your pain here...
PowerBook 1.67 Mac OS X (10.3.8)
PowerBook 1.67 Mac OS X (10.3.8)

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