Apple is said to be planning to make the latest upgrade, 10.6, of
their Leopard OS an Intel ONLY version, cutting out the non-intel
Mac community. This move, if true, is aimed at making the Leopard
OS imminently useable on Windows machines and forcing Mac PPC
owners to buy new computers if they want to use future versions of
Leopard.
I should have written "next major upgrade."
OS X, as Rhapsody--1999?, ran on NT PPC boxes, with some hacks. Emphasizing
'hacks' means that it takes a fair amount of effort to run OS X on an
Intel PC box. The main reason to avoid the hacks is that Macs are priced
competitively and designed for all components to work together
seamlessly. There's not much incentive for most users to hack a PC to
run a Mac OS.
For those who like the challenge, it can be fun, just like modding and
overclocking are rewarding.
I prefer to have both Macs and PCs, and use/mod each to its best advantage.
My PPC is 7 years old. It's "new" processor is 2 years old. Intel Macs
have been around long enough that it makes good business sense to
develop for new Macs and let third parties handle legacy models, or to
declare them obsolete, just like our PM7600 and PM6100 that still run
well, but hasn't been supported in years. So what!
Betty
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