Rough Debut For Intel Macs?

Are Intel-based Macs all they've been cracked up to be?

Well, maybe not yet – at least that's what colleague Elizabeth Dolski heard from a solution provider she interviews this week on CRN TV. The solution provider, David Salav, president of Webistix of Holbrook, N.Y., tells her:

The customers that we've shipped the iMacs to, a lot of them have said their applications are not running properly. They're running very slow. I've had customers that have said that if they've had, for example, a gigabyte of memory in a PowerPC machine, that they've actually had to shift to two-to-three times that amount of memory just to get the applications to run in the compatibility mode.

Applications like iTunes run well, he said, but non-native applications like those from Adobe appear to hit some speed bumps.

Earlier, developers including Sun's James Gosling, indicated they found no trouble transitioning technology over to the Apple-Intel platform.

The good news for Salav: More of his business is on the solution side – for example, keeping business customers running digital media applications, and the like, running efficiently – than on volume sales of Mac hardware.

(And Apple solution providers who also specialize in security may also find new business opportunities, as well.)

To see Elizabeth Dolski's report, you can go here and click on "Show 51."