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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2005-08-29
Instead of making a completely baseless claim why don't you actually look it up?
* 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
* Support for Super VGA graphics
* CD-ROM drive
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/sys...
I'd also point out that people have run Windows XP on machines that are below the minimum requirements (Microsoft doesn't actually lock them out), it just takes a lot of tuning to get acceptable performance.
Does this actually surprise anyone though? Apple has a long history of forced upgrading. For example, the iPod Touch requires Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later. What could it possibly need that wasn't included in 10.3 or 10.2? The answer is nothing... Apple just wants to force people to upgrade.