future of PPC

[Larry Cafiero]

Thank you, Norberto: That's exactly my point -- recently, Apple has really
blown it in both customer service and hardware support when in the past they
had been much better (and I base this on being an Apple user for 15 years).
And now Leopard only works on Intel-based Macs? That sure gets a WTF, no?
Especially if you bought a non-Intel Mac in the last, oh, year or so.

Customer service and hardware quality are apples and oranges. It's a pity
that the former isn't on par with the latter.

Which, again, gets back to the point of what OS one should be running on
pre-Intel Mac hardware, and I would like to think that there is a market for
long-time Mac users who do not pitch their hardware for the flavor of the
month running GNU/Linux instead of being stuck on, say Mac OS 10.3. I vote
with my OS, and on one machine -- a G3 tower upgraded with a Sonnet G4 --
I'm running Yellow Dog.

On 4/30/07, Norberto Quintanar <nquintanar at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Larry,
>
> I know three people who Apple has left in the lurch with their
> terrible customer support specifically when it comes to their switch
> to Intel based chips.  All you have to do to verify this is go to any
> Apple store in your area on a Saturday and wait for a disgruntled
> person to start walking out.  Politely ask them what happened.
> You'll get the picture.
>
> Norberto
>
> --- Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero at gmail.com> wrote:
> ---snipped-----------
> > I'm sorry to inform you -- Apple was never "notorious
> > for
> > leaving customers with 3-month-old outdated machines," as you say;
> > the truth
> > is that it has been quite the opposite at Apple regarding support.
> > At least
> > not until now with Leopard, which I understand is no longer
> > supposed to work
> > with non-Intel based Macs.
>
>
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