Oh look, it's Lion. Hmm.
Thank the lord, since I left my Powerbook G4 in a Dublin taxi in early Feb, most of the drawbacks don't affect me: I sprung for the first shipment of 8 Core Xeon Mac Pros and it's the best money I ever spent (even if it is stuck in Dublin for now) - meanwhile this new 15" MacBook pro handles an awful lot of work, I must say.
Though as I pointed out recently, the document sizes I'm working with keep shrinking so it's hard to tell what the speedbumps are. In the early 90s I was working up to A2 on machines that simply couldn't handle the work: as soon as machines became more than up to the task (the last machine I bought while still working on print was a G3 aqua - it was the first machine I recall being truly comfortable with print jobs) I was designing websites and interactive screens for an absolute max of 1024x768.
Wow, that was considered high resolution once.
The 8 core was the same with regard to fullscreen video - I recall feeling it was the first machine to be truly at home with HD files in After Effects... at which point I started designing for 320x480.
Buuut anyways - I digress. Paradoxical career paths fighting with moore's law apart, it's interesting to see Java and Appletalk hit the dust. I'm just glad I don't depend on legacy software...
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