This prompts the question: does anyone know of Apple saying publicly that their *next* OS release (10.4) will (or won't) work on B&W's?
I know that Dan Knight had mentioned in a previous mail that:
Apple has been intentionally ripping support for legacy hardware OUT of OS X.
I'm just wondering how eager they are to add B&W's to the list of machines that won't run their latest OS without a hack (if at all).
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/
Lots of info, but no deep details and no full spec list.
Typically there are only three reasons to abandon hardware: 1) Processor or other system hardware features. 2) The Need For Speed. 3) Marketing.
The G4 is basically a G3 core plus the Alta-Vec FPU... Machines like the B&W and older iMacs etc have all the necessary ifaces built-in and can support fairly modern video cards. So there's really no reason to abandon that level of LEMs for technological reasons.
Speed could be an issue. Apple certainly doesn't want to release an OS that runs like a lamed pig. Eliminating the slower tier prevents that perception. IOW, if you can't bother to optimize your code, simply eliminate the problematic hardware.
Apple's profit, excluding the muzak biz, is from new hardware sales. The Switch campaign has run out of steam. That means Apple has to, once again, poach its own market. So it kindof makes sense for Jobs to cut off the lower tiers again...
FWIW, - Dan.
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