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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RE[6]: I hope Apple reconsiders
by n4cer on Tue 25th Sep 2007 07:50
in reply to "RE[5]: I hope Apple reconsiders"
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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
He'd still be incorrect. And with Aero enabled, those features are accelerated by the GPU. The lowest spec machine I've run Vista on during the betas and shortly after RTM was an 800MHz Athlon T-Bird with 768MB RAM and an AGP 4x Geforce 5600 GPU. That machine is currently running Vista with the same specs and a 1GHz Duron (Athlon died when it's fan stopped working because AMD didn't have overheat protection similar to Intel until later -- Athlon XP IIRC, or maybe not until Athlon64). As with the 800MHz CPU, Vista was/is configured with all graphical options enabled.
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" 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