Apple has always been about moving forward, about pressing customers to buy the latest and greatest. Product pacing has been high in Cupertino (except for the Mac Mini, obviously), and this is obviously a good thing if you're an Apple bean counter. Most Apple fans more or less accept this planned obsolescence without question, but the company may have just gone a little too far.
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Member since:2005-10-12
Those who are with PowerPC, will be classified as "Pending for upgrade" Status, in Apple ecosystem, 3 years are around the time they expect you to upgrade.
The myth of course is that Apple hardware lasts longer. So when people do analysis of the installed base, they assume lots more of the shipped Macs are still in service than of the shipped Windows machines. When they do value for money comparisons, they assume that the Macs last longer.
There never has been any evidence for this, and the quote above suggests the contrary, as does the phasing out of support for anything that is not current.
Throw the junk out and buy a new one, seems to be the message.
Member since:2005-06-29
It gets even better: PowerPC and Intel Macs sold in 2006 are still under Apple warranty. So you have the weird situation where your machine is under full warranty, yet you do not get to use parts of Apple's software.
I'm sorry, but you have to be crazy to accept this without question.
Member since:2005-08-28
Member since:2005-07-06
"The myth of course is that Apple hardware lasts longer."
Hmmmm - you had better tell my wife that her 800mhz G4 iMac (lamp) purchased in 2000 and is running Mac OS X 10.4.6 isn't still working. Sure it isn't as fast as current computers but she does all the normal stuff that normal people do on computers. Except maybe pron. I don't think she surfs for that but maybe she does. The same is true without 2001 800mhz G4 PowerBook
Sure she can't have me install OS X 10.5 or let her run the newest version of iLife.
I was able to install the newest version of iWork (I bought the family pack for it) which runs on all of our computers except for the 1998 original iMac version b. That still works for surfing the web and doing e-mail too running Mac OS 9.2 and is the only Mac we have with anti-virus software.
I was thinking about updating both but she likes the look of her iMac lamp and the new MacBook doesn't have a firewire port so I can't connect our Sony digital 8 video camera to it. So in a way, our old PowerBook is better than the new MacBook. And I don't feel like spending an additional $500 just for a FireWire port.
I do also have a Nov '06 white 24" iMac Core2Duo which I've installed the new iLife on. The learn keyboard and guitar looks pretty cool. I've only peeked at it. The new iMovie is MUCH improved though I may still need iMove '06 (I restored it from TimeMachine - very easy - very cool). Guess I'm glad a waited for the Core2Duo version.
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2005-10-19
We bought a PowerPC G5 two and a half years ago and last year we realized that AVCHD doesn't work on PPC hardware in Final Cut (I know there is the 3rd party VoltaicHD but that's extremely slow and a really cumbersome workaround).
Apple should have announce in 2005 that AVCHD, iLife etc won't run on old hardware in 2008 or 2009. Simply they mislead consumers because they had to sell all those G5-based computers during the transition.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.