Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Jun 2008 18:58 UTC
The original rumours concerning Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard stated that it would be available only for 64bit Intel processors, leaving PowerPC G4, G5, and early Intel Macs out in the blue. While Steve Jobs' keynote and the preview pages at Apple.com did not speak of any hardware cut-offs, Gizmodo got their hands on a hardware requirements document for the Developer Preview release of Snow Leopard, and it contains bad news for PowerPC users.
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As a recent convert to OS X, I think that Leopard is already way ahead of its peers and that we could not have asked Apple for a better direction on their 10.6 release in order to keep pushing the state of the art in workstations.
Leopard already does everything that I need and more, out of the box. Further optimizations and reduced install footprint would be most welcome by Intel only individuals like myself. Note: I removed almost 4G from my Leopard install using Xslimmer.
We can continue to run PowerPC only applications through Rosetta.
Tiger is still supported, so Leopard users with PowerPC Macs can expect support for years to come, knowing that they will eventually need to upgrade for Snow Leopard's successor.