[G4] Much Ado About Harddrives

[Eric Smith]

Eric Wood wrote:
> I for one am trying to keep going on PowerPC as long as possible. I'm a 
> fan of the RISC philosophy and I find my PPC systems to be very capable. 

I agree with you completely.

> I'm counting 
> on qemu making running Intel apps on PPC possible - that would be fun.

Sounds interesting; what is it?

My guess is that under the guise of requiring a certain level of
hardware performance Apple will restrict a future OS version to
Intel-based systems. It will probably be as unnecessary as the way
they set an arbitrary CPU speed to support Leopard, when reports
are that even slow G4's run Leopard at about the same performance
as Tiger. But Apple will enforce it by distributing only an Intel
version and forcing anyone who wants the latest to buy new hardware.
Who knows if it will be with 10.6 or when, but I have a feeling
that Apple will orphan the PPC platforms before too long.

Eric S.