Is the Mac the new Atari????

Since all this talk about the Intel Mac and the implications it will have on us loyal Mac (the real thing) users, I have had a lot of questions and thoughts. One of them is:
I bagan my music work in my teens (not even that long ago) on one of the later Ataris (for you people who remember) and made my first monies on the Atari. In fact, this Atari is still in my storage and has been ever since the continuing decline of support from software- and hardware developers forced me to switch to Mac. Today, I'm not regreting it of course but it cost me a lot of money at the time, as not only did I change my computer but had to buy everything else around it.
Although the Mac is a completly different machine with almost every software and hardware company supporting it today, I am wondering if it now has the same faith as the faithful Atari. Will I (we all) once again be forced to leave an otherwise GREAT platform with none of my softwares and hardwares (I have a lot) working on the new (forcing me again having to invest £10.000s in new)?
I would love to hear your veiws on the above!
G5 dual 2Gh Mac OS X (10.4.4)

The Atari lasted as long as it did for one reason. It was probably the single, finest decision at Atari which enabled the machine to survive to a much greater extent than it ever should have. This was to build in midi connections.
Unfortunately, they didn't capitalise on this and suffered the consequences and that is the lesson for others to learn.
Macs are not dedicated music computers, I read another post in here where someone was complaining that the optical ins and outs on the new MacBook were not ADAT Lightpipe. The majority of normal everyday users have no idea what that is. Virtually everyone here does. What Apple need to learn from Atari is that it is the platform of choice for a lot of pro musicians, engineers, producers...... you name it. They don't need to give us things like built in A/D's because everyones opinions differ on what sounds good be it Motu, RME or whatever. It is the nature of sound engineers to argue over Mics and mic pre-amps etc, but they will all produce great sounding records.
Stability, ease of use and compatibility in the OS, with the hardware and with Logic is what I and a lot of other users want. I think Atari just got lucky with the midi ports. I am not disappointed with the features of 7.1 but I am with the stability and huge jump in processing power it seems to need over 6.
With the amazing iPod sales and mass acceptance of the consumer MP3 revolution it stands to reason that we are creating the music that ends up on these great products. The new songs that will populate the itunes music store this time next year are being recorded by artists all over the world right now. If Apple put as much effort into Logic as they do iPod then the app and the platform could easily see the same market share as the iPod is seeing from within it's own market.
No. Apple are not the new Atari.

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