Um, I think by "System 7", he was referring to the REAL System 7...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_System_7 And as for the whole compatibility thing, Apple announced Intel-only way back when they announced Snow Leopard. It's not a surprise. I actually just finally upgraded my MDD dual 867 to a first-gen dual 2.0 GHz G5 (like, last week) and it's very pleasantly speedy. I'm still going to get an Intel MBP, however, because I want to do iPhone dev. You've got to understand this about what's going on at Apple: all of their machines have been Intel-only for a couple of years and they are doing major code updates to their operating system. It's SO much work to do major updates on two completely different architectures (ie PPC and Intel), it just doesn't make any sense for them to continue supporting the PPC stuff. Keep in mind, I'm usually four or five years behind the curve, and I'd love to run the latest and greatest on my G5, but I can completely understand why Apple would drop support for them aside from security maintenance and bug fixes. Josh On Jun 8, 2:22 pm, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: > On Jun 8, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Steve R wrote: > > > WAAAAHHHH! I can't run System 7 on my Intel iMac! Damn Apple! > > Whaa? <looks at Windows 7 Fusion VM to make sure it's not a > hallucination> I can do that! > > And when Windows 7 comes out officially Apple will update their boot > camp install so that you can indeed run Windows 7 on it . I know more > than one person who bought a Mac pro *because* it's such a stable, > good-performing Windows workstation. (This for doing Autocad and Rhino > 3D design stuff.) > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
