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By: thehumanyawn

thehumanyawn — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:57:10 +0000

How is that crap? I own an eMac with a 1GHz G4 and 1GB of RAM. I would be mad but understanding if they dumped PPC support with OS 11 because by the time OS 11 rolls around the OS would probably require more modern hardware to use. I do admit though that I didn’t think about people who use last-gen PPC Macs. Maybe they will dump support for those machines by OS 12. I don’t want them to stop supporting hardware on a point release though.

By: george sturges

george sturges — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:33:50 +0000

Follow-up: This was available up until Aug ’06:
CPU: PowerPC 970MP
CPU Speed: 2.0/2.3/2×2.5 GHz (dual-core)
FPU: integrated
Bus Speed: 1.0/1.15/1.25 GHz
Data Path Width: 64 bit
Address Width: 64 bit
RAM Type: PC4200 DDR
Minimum RAM Speed: 533 MHz
RAM slots: 8
Maximum RAM: 16.0 GB
Level 1 Cache: 32 kB data, 64 kB instruction
Level 2 Cache: 1 MB (per core) on-chip, 1:1
Expansion Slots: 2x 4-lane, 2x 8-lane PCI Express

Yeah… Not shabby…

By: george sturges

george sturges — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:28:38 +0000

“They made the switch to intel over two years ago!”? So this is what we’ve come to? “That computer is two years old! Throw it out and get a new one!”

No, thank you. A 2x2GHz G5 is still plenty of processor to do anything you want. Add to that up to 8 Gigs of ram and a 512mb graphics card and you tell me i need a new computer…. Even more infuriating is the fact that the company that made their OS run ONLY on their computers is effectivly dropping support for a fantastic computer only a few years after releasing them.

And both of the other comments are pure crap: “They should cut PPC support with the release of Mac OS 11. $130 for a copy of Mac OS X or $600 for a new low-end Mac, you tell me what’s more affordable.” Uh, wot?

By: thehumanyawn

thehumanyawn — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:25:08 +0000

They should cut PPC support with the release of Mac OS 11. $130 for a copy of Mac OS X or $600 for a new low-end Mac, you tell me what’s more affordable.

By: Gyula Bognar, Jr.

Gyula Bognar, Jr. — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:43:23 +0000

I’ve seen it coming, so I already upgraded my desktop computer to Intel MacPro, I guess now it’s time to save for a new MacBook Pro. I wish I’d still be working.