[X4U] G3 Last Ship Date?

[Linda]

On 6/14/07 2:38 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> I just noticed that www.osnews.com is reporting that support for G3 based
> systems will be dropped from 10.5.  This seems a little odd to me, when was
> the last ship date for G3 based systems?  If this is in fact true, then I
> think the last G3 models will be the quickest Mac's to have support dropped
> ever.

Looks to me like the last G3 iBook (G3/900) was replaced by a G4 iBook on 22
October 2003. That will be about 4 years before OS X 10.5's release date.

If it's true, it is most likely because there were G3s made that do not meet
the hardware requirements of OS X 10.4. Supporting those G3s in OS X 10.5
would be a nightmare, as it was already hard enough to provide a positive
experience for people who wanted to run 10.4 on those unsupported G3s.

The 900 mhz processor in the fastest G3 shipped might not be fast enough to
offer a positive experience under 10.5, also, along with the max of 640MB
RAM installable on that Mac. Who knows yet? It's all rumors at this point.