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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Member since:2005-07-06
* An 800mhz x86 chip != an 800mhz powerpc chip
and as we all know, thanks to 2000 years of apple hype, 800mhz ppc are at least equal to 2ghz x86
well, i'm still using my 500mhz p3m laptop with xp-prof for office, internet, watching videos/dvds, image-editing and other random stuff i throw at it.
Member since:2005-07-06
Your comparison isn't valid for a few reasons:
* The OS X desktop looks the same regardless of hardware, it may run slower, but it looks the same. Vista disables many graphical features and scales down the OS on older hardware. Yes I know core animation, etc. might run slower, but the apps work.
No. He's right. Your claims are baseless. The GPU, not the CPU determines whether Vista disables Glass. Vista will run with Glass on an 800MHz CPU as long as your GPU is Shader Model 2.0 compliant or better.
You should take your own advice.
Member since:2006-12-06
" The OS X desktop looks the same regardless of hardware, it may run slower, but it looks the same. Vista disables many graphical features and scales down the OS on older hardware. Yes I know core animation, etc. might run slower, but the apps work"
I really don't think they were refering to Aero but switching themes (even down to basic)turning off cleartype, shadows on the mouse cursor, Fading Menus, Thumbnails and about 50 other preformance killing features (same as Windows XP had in the System )Properties Area
Member since:2005-07-06
No. He's right. Your claims are baseless. The GPU, not the CPU determines whether Vista disables Glass. Vista will run with Glass on an 800MHz CPU as long as your GPU is Shader Model 2.0 compliant or better.
Again, my claims are not. Vista does a lot of feature scaling based on the speed of the CPU, not just the GPU itself.
I have, can we end this pointless flame thread now?
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2005-07-06
Not baseless.
Your comparison isn't valid for a few reasons:
* The OS X desktop looks the same regardless of hardware, it may run slower, but it looks the same. Vista disables many graphical features and scales down the OS on older hardware. Yes I know core animation, etc. might run slower, but the apps work.
* An 800mhz x86 chip != an 800mhz powerpc chip
Perhaps you should actually look it up before calling someone's claims baseless...
Edited 2007-09-25 01:06