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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RE[2]: there it is again...
by rockwell on Thu 12th Jun 2008 13:37
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RE[2]: there it is again...
by matt_mph on Fri 13th Jun 2008 15:42
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I'd actually really really welcome Microsoft dropping the backwards compatibility for the sake of a decent security model. Vista could have been a much nicer system to use were it not for the kludges put in place to ensure older binaries to work IMO.
re. 10.6: seeing as my first and only Mac is a first gen macbook, I kind of hope that they drop PPC support, as it means I will get some hard drive space back that is currently taken up with wasted code that I can't run (ie, 1 half of every UB).
would also like to see Java 6 and JavaDB for 32bit architectures, but I guess that's hoping for a bit too much.
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2006-11-24
Mac reality distortion. Seriously, what are you thinking..?
The PPC is history. In no time, you will have so much power on any Intel Apple that you will not look back at the G5. Do you want to burden the developer community for years to come to serve those still sitting on PPC?
It doesn't happen every day, but you got you acknowledge that there has been a mayor platform change and that is that for the PPC.
It does not have to do with my hate for Mac when I say this, it really only is a logical, natural decision. You can keep using the current systems the way they are and eventually they will fade out.