---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs? Date: Donnerstag 21 Januar 2010N From: Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> To: [email protected]
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > > If Apple does as they always do, Leopard support will be dropped > > with the > > release of the successor of Snow Leopard. Since Snow Leopard is > > already 6 > > months out, PowerPC users are safe for another two years or so. But > > that will > > be it. Dead for good. No more. The end. > > That's odd. I'm quite certain that my old Tangerine iBook running 10.3 > is still working. Apple does not send out a specially coded radio > signal to all unsupported Macs making them cease working when they > move beyond active support. That's not what I meant, but you have a point. > > So why bother with the G3-G5 anyhow? > > Because I have them laying about, I can get them cheaply, they're > useful computers doing useful tasks, and in the case of my G4 > powerbook, holding me off on having to invest in a newer laptop. That's exactly why I'm now using an 11 year old G3 B&W in my office. It works, so why waste it? But you have to make certain drawbacks, like not being up-to-date in the security sense, and not being able to use new applications, even if they are tiny ones. VLC is just one example. http://www.videolan.org/vlc > > On the other hand you can all convert to Linux. Linux was and will > > be running > > on PowerPC for at least another decade (-- my personal opinion). > > You seen to be conflating "no longer under active development" with > "no longer functional" No. But not getting security patches is partly "no longer functional". I know well that all these old version of Mac OS and Mac OS X are well functional. Speaking in PC/Microsoft/Windows terms: noone will actually *work* with Windows 3.1 today. This doesn't mean it is not functional. > If you want the Latest&Greatest all the time, well, there's a price to > pay to stay on the bleeding edge. But there's a huge amount of Useful > Stuff that older computers can do, and if it ain't broke, why fix it? I get it, it's the money issue. Agreed, I can go with that. Usefull stuff on the other hand lays sometimes in new useful applications as well. You may want to use your computer for that as well, but you may not be able to with older -none broken- computers. Thanks for your reply, Andreas aka Mac User #330250
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