In fairness, that's probably very true. I play traditional Christmas music, so the audience is likely to be much older, probably retirees with little disposable income.
I have some pretty high-end computing environments at my disposal, yet I primarily use my PPC Mac for everyday use. My Alienware desktop is gathering dust, as is my Alienware laptop - I do everything with my iPhone that I used to do with the laptop 6 months ago. It's not a matter of cost for me, but rather it does what I want it to do, and does it well, so why should I change? That being said, I do intend on buying a new 8 core Mac Pro this year before they discontinue that, and my aim is to ultimately replace the PPC with the Mac Pro, keeping the PPC for my Photoshop and Web side work, because I do such little of it now that it makes no sense to buy newer versions for Intel Mac. I'm sure I'm representative of most of us here, in that we have our PPC's on hand because they do a particular job we bought them for, and still do it well. The challenge for me is to make it do more "current" things purely for amusement and the experience. ----- Original Message ----- From: Wayne Stewart <[email protected]> To: G-Group <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:43:06 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Mac OS X Version Distribution Got to be something drawing a particular group with Macs more than 6 years old. I know several hundred Mac users and of those that are online, about 1% are doing it with a PPC. They'd be running newer hardware if they could afford to. Actually their budget isn't much over free. iPads are used a bit differently and possibly aren't used for online radio. There's likely over 60 million iPads out there. That's way more than all the PPC Macs ever made On Apr 27, 6:11 am, Darryl wrote: > Very true, although the browser string usually returns architecture info > (PPC, Intel, AMD) and whether 32 or 64 bit. Over Christmas every year I run a > radio station online. For the last year, Dec 11-Jan 12, my logs showed > approximately 1 out of every 3 listeners who's browser string indicated they > were using OS X were on PPC. > > I also saw some iPads for the first time. Barely anyone running Lion... -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
