Part of what keeps apple ahead of M$ is a willingness to orphan machines and software after a period of time. M$ saddles itself with so much legacy hardware and code that it can't embrace change as easily. These are both good and bad traits in a computer company. The period before orphaning hardware/software should be long enough to be fair to people that bought it. A companies history should not inconvenience new users with bloated code to support ancient software/hardware.
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 1:44 PM, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 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 > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
