10.6 - Definitely no G4 Support.

[robbieduncan]

the G3 had better be supported by Leopard, I have a G3 iBook 900MHz that can run circles around my early G4 Powermac, so logically you'd think it would handle Leopard better as well. The system is from late 2003, so less than 3 years ago, which is well within the usual time frame of system support for Apple, and still under Applecare no less.

But Leopard is not out yet. Assuming it ships in early 2007 your machine will be over 3 years old and outside Applecare. I'd not bet on G3 support in Leopard.

Edit to add: If the G4 is not supported in 10.6 then it might make sense to remove G5 support as well. If Apple are going to have any PPC architecture support they might well retain the G4 support.

 

[Shadow]

Even if the G3 is supported in 10.6, it will crawl. Even Tiger crawls on a G3, and Leopard will probably go even slower.

 

[Lollypop]

10.6 will support the G4, I dont see how apple could kill off the PPC so soon, the G3 is toast with 10.6, but im wondering about Leopard, yes tiger rusn very slow, but it runs, and it allows many people to retain their investment, people like me who use a G3 as a home server stretch out their investment for very long. I thinkg apple would rather have the machine give in due to old age than have "my old mac doesnt run 10.6, how do I install linux" happening.

 

[srf4real]

Apple kept feeding my '99 bondi all the way to 10.2.8 - over five years of updates and then I waited for Tiger last year before upgrading hardware. I don't think I will know what to do with a better OS if I had one! My old iMac will probably be running iTunes in my garage for another fifteen years.