# When is a good time to buy a mac?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/when-is-a-good-time-to-buy-a-mac/181781>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [March 13, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/when-is-a-good-time-to-buy-a-mac/181781 "2006-03-13T01:28:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![SlowRoasted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@SlowRoasted](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SlowRoasted)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/when-is-a-good-time-to-buy-a-mac/181781/1 "2006-03-13T01:28:49Z")

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Everyone keeps talking about how macs have to use an emulator to run programs now the cpu switch has happened and that you shouldn’t buy one until this is fixed. Is it a matter of them making a new OS? When will this problem get fixed?

I’m thinking of getting a mac laptop sometime soon:tb: