Adobe has announced it is dropping PowerPC support from its next version of the Creative Suite for the Mac. "By the time the next version of the Suite ships, the very youngest PPC-based Macs will be roughly four years old. They're still great systems, but if you haven't upgraded your workstation in four years, you're probably not in a rush to upgrade your software, either. Bottom line: Time & resources are finite, and with big transitions underway (going 64-bit-native, switching from Carbon to Cocoa), you want Adobe building for the future, not for the past."
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I have an old 1.67 G4 powerbook. The screen is not as bright as newer ones, and some edges around the keyboard are a little "worn off", but the rest still works perfectly. In many ways, this notebook blows off many low/mid-end notebooks I've seen using by my colleagues in these weeks (including performance).
I would have no reason to switch if it wasn't for an increasing number of programs built *only* for intel (for no reason whatsoever). I could certainly use Snow Leopard on this machine (and love to), but it's not supported. Again, this is not a terrible issue, but eventually stuff will only be compiled without *any* backward compatibility.
I could simply stay "behind", but being a developer, this is not acceptable. Not that I need the speed, honestly. I still prefer my opaque screen to the glass (even after trying it for months), and I love to be able to replace the battery with a fresh one when I'm traveling. On the hardware side, I see absolutely *no* reason to switch.
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Actually, it's your fault, as a developer, that your PPC Mac will be outdated within a few months. Since Apple developers always think they need to stay updated, virtually no new software works on older revisions of OS X. And since Apple cuts off support for their hardware several years prematurely, older Macs can only run abandonware for older OS X versions.
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By opaque you mean matte screen, yes? Apple now offers the 15" with an antiglare finish. Need more battery power than 8 hours? Get one of these:
http://www.hyperdrive.com/HyperMac-External-MacBook-Battery-and-Car...
Kind of a non-issue. As for your system's performance; Even most G5 systems are left behind by the cheapest MacBook Pro in terms of performance. I can't see how you'd possibly want to avoid upgrading.
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Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.
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It has been about 4 years since Apple has released Power PC Systems anyways. Any Power PC OS X systems would be well showing its age by now. And updating your CS will not probably be the best idea as the new features will probably run that much slower. Stick with the current version if you don't want to upgrade. If you do want to upgrade then you have reason to get a New system. It has been long enough to get a new one anyways.