Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Sep 2007 20:01 UTC
Just weeks ahead of its public launch, Apple has updated the minimum system requirements for its next-generation Leopard operating system to exclude 800MHz PowerPC-based Macs, AppleInsider has learned. Apple has yet to officially announce the hardware requirements to run Leopard, due out in October, but had long stated in developer documentation that the software would require "an Intel processor or a PowerPC G4 (800MHz or faster) or G5 processor." According to people familiar with the matter, engineers for the company recently determined that Leopard installs on 800MHz PowerPC G4 systems ran "too slow". Support for those systems was subsequently pulled from the most recent pre-release copies of Leopard, which inform testers that the software "cannot be installed" on those computers. My take: Assuming this turns out to be true, there are going to be a lot of unhappy G4 owners - including yours truly.
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2005-07-06
Just because you can, given enough time, support something, doesn't mean it makes good financial sense to do so.
One could argue that it's rather amazing that they're willing to support the minimum systems they do at all, given how similar operating systems have much higher requirements (e.g. Vista).
While it may give customers a warm, glowing, feeling. In the end, it's all about the shareholders, since they can boot you in a minute if you don't perform well enough for them.
I do think it was silly to pull the support that was already there.
Apple should have just stated that "800mhz systems are an unsupported configuration, use at your own risk."
Admittedly, this change may also help them keep their support costs down, which comes back to maximizing profits for shareholders...
Doesn't make it right, but it does make good financial sense.
Edited 2007-09-24 20:46