From: "Frank Haber" 

InDesign is replacing Pagemaker (but not Framemaker).  Yes, it's on PCs,
mostly.  No, it doesn't need a whole lot of CPU.  But print production
people (Quark) are still on Macs, because of the custom imagesetter tools
available there, the still-superior color control, and above all the (more)
rational use of PostScript and OpenType together.

There's currently a brief flurry back to quad G5s for really big-format
Photoshop work.

CAD has always needed all the CPU (s) it can get.  Anyone know what's hot
in the $20k-software machine-design world?

The movie industry is firmly Mac and Final Cut + Avid.  It's traditional
and very Apple-brainw^H^H -loyal.  This will be slow to change.

Rendering can be anything - gimme the cheapest Opteron farm running
something open-source, free, and faintly-supported.  Poor SGI.

WinCE/PocketPC have an evil reputation.  Maybe v5 will get it right.  Palm
is emulating this lately, from what I can see.  That platform is getting
long in the tooth and short on shame.  Sound familiar?

A stable media center control opsys is the next big prize, as has often
been discussed here.  The flailing there is fun to watch, isn't it, if you
don't have to use the stuff?

My heretical take on it all?  Convergence in computer operating system
interfaces is happening a lot faster than convergence between traditional
media and computers.  And yes, the principle roadkill is us, the expert
users of (insert name of favorite general-purpose computer platform).

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