At 2:43 PM -0400 6/8/2009, Alexander MacLeod wrote: >On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Stephen Weber<maryland...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Apple does really know how to make people upset, obviously you wonder why >> real businesses don't use Macs. It's because Apple does stuff like this.
Exactly. >And how long did you expect them to keep supporting the PPC >architecture, forever? yes. Or at least until the userbase becomes small. Right now, the ppc userbase is still over 15%, over 20% in some markets. That translates to millions of Macs... >And it's not like Snow Leopard is substantively different than >"regular" Leopard, it's just optimized for Intel >hardware. Yea, there are some optimizations in it. But mostly it's just not got the ppc code build. Pretty stupid when you think about it, really. OS X is NOT "intel only". It builds nicely for a number of architectures. So why rip out the ppc code? It's not a technological requirement. It's MARKETING Jobs Ego. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
