Dear iBook G3 owner
June 15, 2007It’s quite interesting to see how people responded to the news that Leopard will most likely drop support for PowerPC G3-based Macs. The readme file for the developer preview release states that in order to run Leopard, you need a G4, G5, or Intel-based Mac. Many people responded: the G3 is old, it makes sense for Apple to drop support. You can’t support something forever!
How fast do people forget.
The last G3-based Mac, the 14″ iBook G3 at 900Mhz, was sold 22 October 2003. By the time Leopard comes out, this means your 4 year old laptop, for which you paid a hefty 1499 US Dollars, will be considered obsolete and useless by our friends in Cupertino.
Dear iBook G3 owner, will you please bend over?
It’s always been like that with Apple. What really bothers me off though is when people are getting pissed off at Vista for the same reason — nevermind that Vista would run even on a 6 year old PC — even with fewer effects — as long as it has 512 MB of RAM.
Comment by Eugenia — June 15, 2007 @ 9:19 am
“nevermind that Vista would run even on a 6 year old PC — even with fewer effects — as long as it has 512 MB of RAM”
Uhmm, I don’t seem to recall too many cpu arch. changes in their field during that 6 year period. Besides, although “would run” is true, but we shouldn’t dismiss the issue of the considerable pain it would cause :)
BTW, every now and then you fellas speak about Leopard not being worth the praise and celebration and whatnot. Why is it such a problem then, if it doesn’t run on older hw ? :P
Comment by l3v1 — June 15, 2007 @ 7:25 pm
>I don’t seem to recall too many cpu arch. changes
Just because Apple can’t make their mind and asking of their developers to change or update their programs every 2 years, doesn’t mean that MS must be the same.
>Why is it such a problem then, if it doesn’t run on older hw ?
Because it could run. Leopard is not slower than Tiger. They could just as easily turn off some special effects if that was a problem, just like Vista does. The reason why G3 was cut out was that less testing would be done, which translates to fewer developer costs.
Comment by Eugenia — June 15, 2007 @ 8:22 pm
I own an iBook G3, and I installed Linux on it long ago, therefore I do not care.
Comment by Richard — June 18, 2007 @ 1:44 pm