future of PPC

[Ali Rastegar]

Don't worry, Mac OS X(10.5) Leopard officialy supports G4 & G5  
PowerPC Macs. Only G3 support is in question.

On May 1, 2007, at 12:49 AM, Larry Cafiero wrote:

> 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 leaving customers with 3-month-old outdated machines," as you say;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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