On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:27 PM, wrote:
>
> 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.
>
True enough. I use my MDD (Dual 867 MHz PPC G4, 1 MB L3 cache per
processor, 2 GB DDR SD
> > There are Mac-based server systems which are still using Apple Network
> > Servers, and those went out of production in 1995.
>
> I only retired my ANS 500 about two months ago, and only then because it
> was getting flaky and 200MHz wasn't cutting it for some database tasks I
> needed. Otherw
> > 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.
>
> There are Mac-based server systems which are still using Apple Network
> Servers, and those went out of p
> And IBM's Mainframes are now capable of a lot more than they used to be,
> so they've actually built on the technology. I have 2 full System Z frames
> here, one at each site..beasts.
Well, yes, and CMOS was the key.
The last IBM mainframe which was bipolar could not even do 1000 MIPS (it
7 Apr 2012 17:09:16 - (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.
There are Mac-based serve
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Sent: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:43:06 - (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.
> 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.
There are Mac-based server systems which are still using Apple Network
Servers, and those went out of production i
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
> While a G3-4-5 user is (on an emotional level) a strong Apple supporter, on
> a monetary level he isn't supporting Apple at all. :-)
> It's a case of philosophical Vs. financial.
I no longer "support" Apple even "philosophical". Since I do want
modern software, and Apple ditched the entire diffe
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 th
> Actually if someone says they're running 10.4 or 10.5, it doesn't mean
> that OS is necessarily running on a PPC Mac. The first Intel machines
> came with 10.4. I know a number of people still using 10.4 or 10.5 on
> Intel machines for a variety of reasons. You could purchase10.5 to run
> on a P
Actually if someone says they're running 10.4 or 10.5, it doesn't mean
that OS is necessarily running on a PPC Mac. The first Intel machines
came with 10.4. I know a number of people still using 10.4 or 10.5 on
Intel machines for a variety of reasons. You could purchase10.5 to run
on a PPC Mac but
At 6:46 PM -0700 4/26/2012, David W. Morris wrote:
One out of every 5 Mac computers is still a huge number of computers
and users. Too many to ignore, IMHO, but apparently Apple is so
confident that they can force their users into upgrading to Intel
powered computers, they do not care about th
On Apr 26, 2012, at 5:42 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:
This usage of 20% tells us why we are no longer important to Apple.
Mac OS X Version Distribution
OSX %USE NOTE
10.4 03.8 PPC <--- 10.4.8 was first practical OS for
Hackintoshes
10.5 16.4 PPC LAST OS FOR G5s
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At 2:53 AM +0200 4/27/2012, Valter Prahlad wrote:
Il giorno 26-04-2012 19:37, Jonas Lopez ha scritto:
> This usage of 20% tells us why we are no longer important to Apple.
Mac OS X Version Distribution
OSX %USE NOTE
10.4 03.8 PPC
10.5 16.4 PPC LAST OS FOR G5s
10.6 4
Il giorno 26-04-2012 19:37, Jonas Lopez ha scritto:
> This usage of 20% tells us why we are no longer important to Apple.
>
> Mac OS X Version Distribution
> OSX %USE NOTE
> 10.4 03.8 PPC
> 10.5 16.4 PPC LAST OS FOR G5s
> 10.6 47.4 INTEL ONLY
> 10.7
> This usage of 20% tells us why we are no longer important to Apple.
>
> Mac OS X Version Distribution
> OSX %USE NOTE
> 10.4 03.8 PPC <--- 10.4.8 was first practical OS for Hackintoshes
> 10.5 16.4 PPC LAST OS FOR G5s
> 10.6 47.4 INTEL ONLY <---
This usage of 20% tells us why we are no longer important to Apple.
Mac OS X Version Distribution
OSX %USE NOTE
10.4 03.8 PPC
10.5 16.4 PPC LAST OS FOR G5s
10.6 47.4 INTEL ONLY
10.7 30.4
10.8
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