To further clarify, Marta, PPC stands for "PowerPC." It was the trademark of the chips that Motorola (and IBM) made for Apple that used IBM's "Power" chip architecture. So Nelsn is right that you can apply the nomenclature to all the Macs from the late "beige" period on through the G-series prior to the switch to the Intel chips. So, anything with a G3, G4 or G5 chip in it would apply. There were also several chip versions just prior to the "G" series that carried the moniker as well, but that's ancient history.
In this instance what is meant is that those computers were too weak to do all the things asked of them in Leopard, AND be writing files to the background all the time as well. Our software advances all the time to take up every available bit of power of the newer and faster chips that Intel keeps pouring out. The older chips are left to gasp and wheeze along [way] behind. j. On Jun 4, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Nelsn Helm <[email protected]> wrote: >> A mac with a Motorola chip, used before switch to Intel chip. >> >> On Jun 4, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Marta Edie wrote: >> >>> Good to hear from you, Ed, again, and now somebody explain to me what a PPC >>> Mac is? >>> Marta >> -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9 & 10 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting [email protected] http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 Kentuckiana's FileMaker Users Group Next meeting: June 28, 12:00 pm to 3:00-ish Listserv signup: http://fmpug.com/mailman/listinfo/louisville_fmpug.com Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
