Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Jun 2007 15:58 UTC, submitted by Jeremy Fox
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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Because eventually Apple will stop supporting 10.4. That means no more security patches or bug fixes.
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.
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What about my B&W G3? It still makes a decent home server, running 10.4 right now.