Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Aug 2006 23:29 UTC
There are some new clues that Mac OS X Leopard will drop G3 support. Its ReadMe file does not mention it, its web pages do not mention it and Apple even made a deliberate change to their 64bit webpage to remove the G3 mention recently. My take: This was not unexpected. For each new version Apple required one more additional feature in order to work (in the past it has been USB, then firewire etc) and now it's G4+. I bet that the client version of OSX after Leopard would require a supported 3D QuartzExtreme-compliant graphics card in order to boot up.
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RE[5]: This Worries Me...
by ormandj on Fri 18th Aug 2006 03:50
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It means, the vast majority of people, can NOT get decent performance out of an old computer running a "new version of its OS". How many people in reality can install Gentoo? Not many. A VERY slim portion of the people who use computers. The vast majority are stuck running whatever windows version was the last to run "ok", or os 8, or whatever it might be. That's my point.
RE[6]: This Worries Me...
by twenex on Fri 18th Aug 2006 03:59
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I don't see how that's relevant to the question of whether you can get decent performance out of an old computer running a new version of its OS.