future of PPC

[Larry Cafiero]

Oh, there's no question, Ali: Leopard WON'T work on G3-based Macs (or at
least it's not supposed to), and I hope you're right about working on G4s,
because I was talking with an Mac tech a few weeks ago and he said that
Leopard won't work on the eMac (which is a G4).


On 4/30/07, Ali Rastegar <rastegar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 leaving customers with 3-month-old outdated machines," as you say;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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