[G4] upgrade to Leopard

Geoffrey Peters enclydion at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 11:21:35 PST 2012


As scandalous as this may sound, it may be well worth having a 
Windows machine around for your internet duties; even a simple 
Windows XP machine of a vintage similar to your Quicksilver can be 
kept up to date with the insane demands of today's web.

On top of that, Leopard is rapidly falling behind in the 
compatibility stakes now that Lion is here; it won't be long before 
it too (along with PowerPC machines as a whole) shall be considered 
too old for even the most basic web functionality. Chrome was 
Intel-only for OSX from the beginning; Firefox too is now solely an 
Intel-only application. Adobe Flash dropped PowerPC support just 
after v10.1, with many Flash-content sites now demanding Flash 11. It 
seems somewhat ironic that Flash 11 still runs poorly on all but the 
most powerful of this year's Intel-based Macs, yet machines that 
pre-date the turn of the millenium can still play Flash 11 videos 
smoothyl.

Don't bother upgrading to Leopard, it will cause MANY more headaches 
than you think it may cure.


Geoffrey

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