At 7:27 PM -0400 6/12/08, Steve Rigby wrote:
On Jun 12, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Stephen Brownfield wrote:
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.
Leopard is not the ideal OS, at least not at this time, for PPC
Macs anyhow, in my silly opinion. Tiger runs great and Leopard
really offers little in terms of bang. The problem will begin to
evidence itself for us PPC users as developers stop writing for PPC
machines.
Or when developers start writing for Leopard-only features, just as
they have for each preceding version of Mac OS X. That's what pushed
me to upgrade my second Mac from Panther to Tiger: apps I wanted to
run started to require Tiger. The downside: some of my older apps
don't run as well (or at all) under Tiger as compared to Panther. Ah
well, such is life.
--
Roger
Lovettsville, VA
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