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Gee, I guess we replaced our G4 iMac just in time. According to Apple Insider, Apple has just updated the minimum system requirements for OS X Leopard (coming out in October - fingers crossed) to an Intel processor, G5, or G4 867 MHz or faster.
There is also some speculation that 10.6 (probably coming out sometime in 2009 at my estimate) will be Intel-only.
This sort of technology upgrade is inevitable, and actually I’m rather looking forward to the day Mac software can be all Intel. I recently was wondering why VLC was running so badly on my Mac Mini but then realized it was an old version that had been migrated over from our G4 iMac.
Disclosure: I own a tiny amount of Apple stock.
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"Yeah it could be the 3g or possibly the gps. Some apps may turn on the location and it remains on. But right now the battery is lasting long enough to where I'm satisfied.Interesting that you noticed sluggishness also, hope a 2.0.1 update will fix that." -
No doubt, there will be a lot of whining again from the Mac community, but the bottom line is that Apple needs to move forward. The more they hold back for machines that can’t handle modern graphics effects, etc. the more the rest of us suffer. You can’t test for everything, and you can’t accommodate to the point where your code is over-bloated; you have to concentrate on the customers who have given you money more recently. That’s not to say that they should ditch anything made in the last few years, but I do think that four years is a good cutoff point. It’s not like those Macs will suddenly stop working; they just won’t be able to run Leopard.
I, too, expected the shift over to Intel-only by 10.6. My guess is that it will be released in late 2009, at the earliest. No need to rush too much. Microsoft won’t be releasing their next system for at least five years after that.
Pretty crazy that we have come to expect whining from Mac fan boys - I’m looking forward to Leopard too (obviously).
In a sense the Intel transition won’t be complete until we get an Intel only OS X and pretty much everyone has an Intel machine. New Macs are arguably more affordable now than they’ve ever been.
I would like Leopard to run on my iMac 800. This machine still boots in OS-9 and I have a few programs on it that require an OS-9 boot. I have os 10-3 running on it and planned on skipping 10.4 and running 10.5.
This would have made this machine the last of the Power PC machines that would run on all platforms. Apple has created a bit of a hole with this exclusion. In other words, the legacy machine in the corner. They come in handy every once and a while. Like for opening old Quark files.