When I first heard this I thought "Oh No!" but then I realized my newest
Mac was already maxed out with OS X Tiger (10.4.11). To run any newer
OS, I'll need a new computer. This also happened when they phased out
the 68k Macs for the PPC. This is really no big deal, it does not
mean that the PPC Macs will stop working. Macs are know for their long
life. (My 68k Mac LC just died a few months ago. It was still being
used to run educational games.) It just means that the ability to
upgrade is limited.
Steve
Steve Rigby wrote:
Official: Mac OS X Snow Leopard doesn't support PowerPC Macs
By AppleInsider Staff
Published: 02:00 PM EST
Documentation included with copies of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
distributed during Apple's developer conference this week confirm that
the next-generation operating system does not presently support Macs
with PowerPC processors.
LogicielMac.com has published a screen capture of the PDF-based
requirements document included on the Snow Leopard disc that provides
a rundown of the system's requirements.
The documentation states that in order to install Snow Leopard,
developers must have a Mac computer with "an Intel processor" and at
least 512MB of RAM, though additional memory is recommended for
development purposes.
The findings confirm an AppleInsider report from last September, which
cited people familiar with the ongoing development of Leopard as
saying that Mac OS X 10.6 would in all likelihood exclude support for
PowerPC processors.
According to the Snow Leopard documentation, the new system will also
require an Apple-supplied video card, 9GB of hard disk space, and
either an internal, external or shared DVD drive.
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