Star Leopard Drops 64bit Carbon, G3 Support
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Jun 2007 15:58 UTC, submitted by Jeremy Fox
Mac OS X Carbon will not be 64bit in Leopard. "At last year's keynote, Apple had claimed that both Carbon and Cocoa would be 64-bit, adding to the 64-bit fundamentals that Tiger had laid. However, according to the latest on Apple's website, Leopard's 64-bit frameworks will include the POSIX and math libraries found in Tiger, Cocoa, Quartz, OpenGL, and X11 GUI framework. In addition, Apple confirms that Carbon will not be 64-bit on the Carbon Developer mailing list." In addition, the readme file included with Leopard's developer preview says G3 support will be dropped from Leopard.
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RE[3]: B&W G3
by lunddal on Thu 14th Jun 2007 19:05 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: B&W G3"
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Because eventually Apple will stop supporting 10.4. That means no more security patches or bug fixes.


Apple still releases security patches for 10.3, so your 10.4 will be supported for a couple of years - at least.

I'm kind of in the same boat as parent. I have a 17" LCD iMac, 800 GHz G4 processor, circa 2002. I'm thinking that it won't see another OS upgrade from Apple, because it really isn't worth it. When Apple drops support for either the G4 processor, or switches to 64-bit only, I will have to evaluate whether it is "safe" to continue to run OS X on that machine, or whether I will shift it over to Linux or one of the *BSD's.


Apple would at least have to wait until 10.6 before going 64-bit, and that is probably not relased until late 2009 at the earliest.

That means that your iMac will be 7 or 8 years old at that time.

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