please unsuscribe.<br><br>thanks<br><br><b><i>Eric Smith <eric-s-smith@comcast.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> macrumors.com is today reporting a story, originating from<br>arstechnica.com, that OS X 10.6 will be named Snow Leopard and,<br>as some of us have previously guessed, will be Intel-only.<br>The release is expected at Macworld in January 2009, and is<br>said not to contain any major new features but to focus on<br>"speed and stability."<br><br>This strategy makes sense to me from Apple's point of view.<br>It has been clear that Apple has been on an accelerated pace<br>to end their commitment to backward-compatibility. Abandoning<br>Classic mode in 10.5 and artificially restricting its installation<br>to G5 and a subset of G4 systems was a death knell for PPC in<br>general. To accomplish that with a minimum of fuss from the<br>user community, what better way
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