[X4U] Re: Guesses on G4 lifespan? (net kat)

[stephen e. schwartz]

On 11/1/06 1:45 PM, "net kat" <netkat at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> some 'ware won't run on intel-based Macs..and so one might want to snag an
> extra one before they're dinosaurs

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hmmm, what leads you to say that "some 'ware won't run on intel-based Macs"?

one essential feature of macs is that they have consistently backwards
compatible. I am able to open and work with documents going back to the
late eighties. Some software isnt backwards compatible. I can't open
powerpoint 2 documents in powerpoint 4 but powerpoint 2 still works in
classic and I can thus still access these documents, modify them, print
them to a pdf, or the like. A few issues surrounding apps that required the
math co-processor (remember that?). But by and large macs have been
exquisitely backwards compatible, essential for my using my mac as my
laboratory notebook.

lets hope (or insist) that the new intel macs retain complete backwards
compatiblity, if necessary through something along the lines of classic.

otherwise I stay with my (still wonderful) G-4 and kachink, mac loses
another loyal purchaser/upgrader. Lets hope not.

-steve