[X4U] Well, well

[Zane H. Healy]

At 10:51 AM +1000 7/26/08, Christopher Collins wrote:
>On 26/07/2008, at 2:57 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>
>>
>>As many/most here know, stability concerns are only half of what 
>>has kept me on 10.4.11, the other issue is the fact 10.5 can't run 
>>classic software.  Considering they're apparently dropping PPC 
>>support altogether with 10.6, they really should have left that in 
>>10.5.
>
>They are giving you advance notice to start moving to an Intel 
>platform so that when 10.6 is released and no longer supports PPC, 
>you can't whinge and complain that you didn't know that great change 
>was coming.

You're missing the point.  Since 10.5 is the end of the line for the 
PPC, it should have also been the end of the line for Classic. 
Somehow I doubt the decision was made to drop PPC support after 10.5 
was released.

The other problem I see is that while my Rev.0 G5 2x2 is getting long 
in the tooth (it hits 5 years in November), when were the last new 
G5's sold?  From my standpoint 10.6 is going to give me a good excuse 
to upgrade, but for those people that bought the last G5's, I think 
they'll be a bit miffed.  I know I'd be more than a little ticked off 
at purchasing a Mac only capable of running two OS versions.

Zane


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