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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2006-07-04
If this is true:
My Mac is a 1Ghz G4 Powerbook, so I guess I'd be able to install Leopard. But if Leopard is so resource-hungry that it's too slow to run on 800mhz systems, then it gives me pause, because my Mac isn't exactly a speed-demon running Panther. I have a policy to upgrade OSX every other release, so I skipped Tiger with the intent of upgrading to Leopard, but now I don't know.
I'v also been considering just getting an Intel MacBook Pro, since PPC-support is on the road to termination anyway.
Anyway, if Leopard is too slow, it's too slow. Apple may be instituting this 800Mhz cut-off to avoid getting ripped for slow perf like Microsoft gets ripped for Vista and Apple got ripped for OSX 10.0.