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Come on, come on, daddy wants a new cat....

Feb 04, 09 - 01:55 pm Comment from: It's About Time

Hopefully Snow Leopard gets to play outside before winter is over.

Feb 04, 09 - 02:05 pm Comment from: Cubert

Less than 3 years of support for the G5's - here it comes!

(the last G5's were released in August 2006)

Terrible.

Feb 04, 09 - 02:38 pm Comment from: Famous Grouse

@Cubert: Inability to upgrade to the newest OS does not equate to lack of support. Unless I'm mistaken, Apple still supports 10.3.9, 10.4.11, and will probably keep 10.5.x going for a while. However, I'd expect 10.3.9 to be dropped shortly after 10.6 is released.

Feb 04, 09 - 02:53 pm Comment from: Me In LA

@ Cubert:
Wah! Does 10.5 not work once Snow Leopard is released?
Get over it.
Use your G5 and quit whining like a Windoze user.

We need Norway to fix this!!!!

@Me in LA

Though I completely agree with Apple's decision to go Intel-only with their machines, I can understand his frustration.

Windows users can just upgrade their machines, no matter how old they are. You can't shove an Intel chip into a G5 machine. So, after paying thousands and dollars for a top of the line PowerMac G5, I can understand why he'd be pissed that he has to completely rebuy a new machine if he wants to use Apple's latest OS.

Feb 04, 09 - 04:19 pm Comment from: Me In LA

@ Aaquib,

You DO realize that the Snow release is mainly to optimize for Intel - right?
It's not like a major release in terms of new goodies.
It's meant to streamline and get rid of legacy code.
He doesn't need what it has.
Nothing wrong with the G5.
Things change.
Gotta move on.

Feb 04, 09 - 04:41 pm Comment from: Mac-nugget

@Me In LA
Although you have a point. Multithreading will be totally revamped, it will be 64 bit savvy, it will have Open CL, so to say that a G5 would not benefit from all this is not quite correct. One thing that you have to take in mind is that the G5 was promoted as a 64 bit solution, with out Snow Leopard, that is only half true.

What I did last year is sell my G5 before it lost all it's resale value and got me a MacPro, because it will not only be Apple killing G5 support, with all this coming in Snow Leopard, I bet a bunch of software will be Intel only. This is already happening.

Feb 04, 09 - 04:45 pm Comment from: Me In LA

@ Mac-nugget,

And that's what anyone that NEEDS the latest and greatest does.
Even my 16-year old son has been doing that for over five years now.
What we need vs what we want is often mixed.
A G5 running 10.5.x will be just as good tomorrow as it is today.
I'm running a beige G3/233 as a filemaker pro server for crying out loud!

Feb 04, 09 - 05:34 pm Comment from: ken1w

@ Famous Grouse

> Unless I'm mistaken, Apple still supports 10.3.9, 10.4.11, and will probably keep 10.5.x going for a while.

You're mistaken. The last update for Panther (10.3) was a few months before the release of Leopard (10.5), and that was just a security update. I have a feeling support for Tiger (10.4) will end when Snow Leopard is released; it has only been security updates for Tiger since Leopard was released.

However, for Leopard, it may be different. I think Apple chose the name "Snow Leopard" because they plan to maintain Leopard alongside Snow Leopard, not as the "previous" release as Tiger was to Leopard. So there will be dot-dot updates to Leopard, even after Snow Leopard comes out. There won't be any major interface or functionality changes to Leopard, but perhaps some of the technical (under-the-hood) changes in Snow Leopard will appear in Leopard.

Feb 04, 09 - 05:44 pm Comment from: Macintosher

My nose is aquiver for a new interface released to a very select few who are told to say otherwise. Think the black background, iTunes style interface all over. No-one knows about it until screenshots appear at the launch event as Apple's One Last Thing. Can't you imagine the publicity?

Feb 04, 09 - 05:53 pm Comment from: Me In LA

@Macintosher:

Quit reading rumor sites.

@Aaquib

"Windows users can just upgrade their machines, no matter how old they are."

Really? So the bus will handle any processor, just slap it in?
I never knew.

Feb 04, 09 - 06:58 pm Comment from: Mac Daddy

Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers...!

Sorry, I just couldn't help myself.

@Me in LA

Ironic how I am anticipating this Snow Leopard release more than any previous Mac OS update. There are no apparent new features. I'm hoping that there will be a dramatic speed increase in everything I do with it.

Understanding it isn't probable, it's still not too far of a stretch that Apple may have prepared new features they won't mention till just before the Snow Leopard's release so Redmond can't start their photocopiers. When Apple releases an OS before Microsoft is imminent with their own new OS release, Microsoft states they have the same features in their new OS. Microsoft then rushes (relatively speaking) to market a hurriedly backwards version of whatever Apple originally made.

I hope there is a "one last thing" yet doubt the probability of one.

What I want to know is, is 10.6 faster than 10.5?

Feb 04, 09 - 09:35 pm Comment from: Cubert

@Famous Grouse and Me in LA,
I just think it's crazy that your AppleCare will last longer than your ability to upgrade the OS.

@mark

Duh.