My interpretation has always been that apple abandoned PPC by not providing an OS beyond 10.5. They certainly could have but chose not to. Not inconsistent for them, but still...
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My interpretation has always been that apple abandoned PPC by not providing an OS beyond 10.5. They certainly could have but chose not to. Not inconsistent for them, but still...
10.5 should have honestly been the last gasp of the G4's. Let's be honest here--they were long in the tooth by the time 10.6 came out. 10.5 was honestly a good one for the G4's to end with.
10.6 should have been the last gasp of the G5's. I think they would have shone nicely with some tweaks on 10.6. Plus, it would have given those systems a good lifeline for several years, as Apple has told those on 10.6 to go to iHell just recently.
With the App Store, I can kind of understand why Apple didn't make it for G5's. It would have been tremendously confusing and you'd have to read the requirements for everything before installing. That's quite a daunting task for the average computer boob. Still, though, I'd have loved for a G5 to run a Universal version of Snow Leopard.
Uhm SL never ran on any PowerPC Mac (despite rabidz7's paranoid fantasy of a PowerPC version locked somewhere deep in an Apple vault). If you are referring to Rosetta, well no.
For all those here commenting about my "middle" finger to Apple, my intent on this thread was sort of tongue in cheek. It was never intended to be a hard commentary on Apple's decision to go Intel. Not that it makes me happy with that by any means.
But I am first and foremost a PowerPC fan. But change is a hallmark of the graphic design industry and it means Intel Macs (whenever my boss gets around to buying them).
Having worked on a Mac Pro for the last year and a half though I am considerably unimpressed and underwhelmed about the Intel chips and any version of OS X past 10.6.
Because of the way things fell at work this MP was too new for SL so it's a system I have skipped entirely. So, I have been affronted with the various new "features" that Lion, ML, Mav, and Yosemite now foist on me. Yosemite so far seems to be better than most but why do new "features" have to remove old things.
The biggest thing annoying me is when Mav removed labels. Yeah, yeah, we get tags. But those damn little balls are miniscule and hard to find when you have three 21" monitors at 1920x1060 and a dozen open windows!
I's always nice going home and getting back on Leopard.
I had a system where I marked all of my apps and utilities with labels. It made things so much easier in Finder. Apps were highlighted red. Utilities (including weird things like App Store, since I felt that updates are more of a utility tool than an app) were colored blue.
I could actually find things that way. Now, it's just a dot and it sucks.
Absolutely! We also had a system
New ads: no color
Pickups (ads that ran previously and are now running again): Yellow
House ads: Blue
DO NOT USE: Red
And colors for the different folders pertaining to each week of run.
This made it very, very easy to find the various ads I needed to assemble our newspapers. Now, as you said, it's a dot and because later versions of OS X do not allow sizing windows down beyond a certain point AND the damn columns insist on cutting off my filenames with elipsises I have to make the filename column very wide which moves the damn dots.
All the way around it's just a horrible system. I hate it.
PowerPC cannot run Snow Leopard.
And honestly I wish at least the G5's could have ran Snow. They needed a last gasp that just never happened.
No, I mean Snow Leopard can run PowerPC apps.
Also, that's what made Snow Leopard so fast and good; they got rid of all the PPC stuff.
