[G4] snow leopard

[Richard Klein]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Eric Smith <eric-s-smith at comcast.net> wrote:
> PPC systems have essentially been cut loose by Apple.
> Except for "security updates" for Leopard, we probably
> won't see any more OS updates for PPC. And with OS support
> coming to an end, application developers will probably
> move to Intel-only fairly quickly.
>
> But this has been expected for well over a year, since
> the first developer release of Snow Leopard came out at
> Apple's 2008 WWDC as Intel-only. And it was foreshadowed
> even earlier, when Leopard dropped support for some G4
> models and eliminated Classic mode entirely.

Furthermore, when you hear that Snow Leopard takes up less hard drive
space and runs faster than Leopard, at least some of that is because
they trimmed the extra code to support PowerPC Macs.

-- 
Rich