Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jul 2008 05:10 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
An opinion article at APCMag: "The focus of Snow Leopard is on core upgrades, not shiny new features. A bedrock focused update that delivers a streamlined, enhanced OS X. Stability. Efficiency. A "new generation of core technologies." All this is about raising the floor on the entire system. Multi-core optimization, support for 16TB RAM (yes, Terabytes), and a language to allow developers to tap the power of the graphics processor are just a few of the key upgrades. But you can't lift the floor and let people walk around where the floor used to be all at the same time. Not without leaving holes for a potential rising damp problem further down the track."
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My most powerful Mac is a 1.25 GHz eMac, which would indeed be left behind by 10.6. However, I run 10.4 "Tiger", which is the most efficient balance of speed and features for this machine (Tiger even runs reasonably well on my fiancee's G3 PowerBook). I tried Leopard on the eMac and while the new features are nice, it is too sluggish even with nearly 1GB of RAM. I would assume that a G5 tower is better with Leopard, but still not what it was really designed for.
PPC Macs will have a place in this world long after 10.6 and future versions leave them behind. Just as there are Mac devotees out there still wringing use out of 68k and 603e vintage hardware with OS 8 and earlier, so will there be a G3/G4/G5 generation that lives on for many years to come.
So, I think it's a fine idea for Apple to focus on the future.