[G4] Snow Leopard

[Eric Smith]

Despite considerable information coming out in the last two days on
Snow Leopard (e.g., http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/ and
http://orchardspy.com/ ), I have yet to see anything definitive on
whether PPC support will be continued. However, the presence of
universal binaries on one of those screenshots is a hopeful sign.

Eric S.

ewood at izoom.net wrote:
>  > Eric Smith <eric-s-smith at comcast.net> wrote: macrumors.com is today
>> reporting a story, originating from
>> arstechnica.com, that OS X 10.6 will be named Snow Leopard and,
>> as some of us have previously guessed, will be Intel-only.
>> The release is expected at Macworld in January 2009, and is
>> said not to contain any major new features but to focus on
>> "speed and stability."
>>
>> This strategy makes sense to me from Apple's point of view.
>> It has been clear that Apple has been on an accelerated pace
>> to end their commitment to backward-compatibility. Abandoning
>> Classic mode in 10.5 and artificially restricting its installation
>> to G5 and a subset of G4 systems was a death knell for PPC in
>> general. To accomplish that with a minimum of fuss from the
>> user community, what better way than to release a "feature-less"
>> upgrade that simply drops PPC support? PPC users can be told
>> just to stick with Leopard without losing any functionality.
>> Then by the time 10.7 comes around, everyone will already be
>> accustomed to the fact that PPC is no longer supported.
>>
>> Eric S.
> 
> I for one am not giving up on PPC, no matter what Apple does. I'd sooner
> be using a used G5 tower ten years down the road than use an Intel
> machine, and I don't care if Apple calls it a Mac. It'll never be a
> Macintosh - just a Wintel box with an Apple logo. Blech >:P
> 
> Eric W.
> 
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