The entire "full OS" still has to be _maintained_, by a team of people, who have to work with the Intel people, writing brand new code for the PPC as the Intel version is updated. In your last message, you said it was a simple matter of building a PPC version. I'm saying, it's not. I'll reiterate what I wrote in the last post:
They COULD move a few Snow Leopard items to PPC, I'm sure, like Exchange support and some UI refinements, but then they have to fork the whole distribution because they can't integrate core technologies like Grand Central Dispatch (which is WAY more than "some optimizations") and so you have two different operating systems in two different states and you have to try to maintain them and market them. It's possible, but it sure isn't optimal. And this is a guess, but I'd wager that in their moving the system apps to full 64-bit support, they're also probably marrying those applications to Intel. I'm sorry, but that is NOT simple. > > Screwing existing customers is always a good way to make them buy > you're latest offering. > > - Dan. So you're on board? Josh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
