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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2007-01-27
This is the best thing Apple could have done! That means even faster G3/G4 boxes for sale so we can all have our own PPC boxes for running Slackware and OpenBSD :-).
I hope the next time they do so for all processors slower than 1.5 GHz. Then we won't have to buy any new computers anymore. Also Sun should finish their PPC Solaris port to give people even more choice.
Apple and Microsoft are encouraging people to run other operating systems on the same hardware so the market share of these can only increase. Thanks to both of them for helping the free software world this much!