Yes but some companies/business work with deaf people moved to Snow Leopard and ichat with external isight does not work with relay service running latest snow leopard's ichat/built in webcam. I tried it before I was forced to move to MacBook Pro.
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I'm staying with PowerPC for as long as I can who's with me?
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Yes but some companies/business work with deaf people moved to Snow Leopard and ichat with external isight does not work with relay service running latest snow leopard's ichat/built in webcam. I tried it before I was forced to move to MacBook Pro.
The version of iTunes 10 on my PowerBook G4 won't recognize my iPhone running the iOS 6 beta.
I'm pretty sure you have to install the lastest beta version of iTunes to get it to recognize iOS 6. I had to do that with iOS 5 last year.
From what I know - none of the iTunes 10-versions do. It would be a feature in iTunes 11, no?
I have 4 computers That I use daily all are PowerPC based and upgraded.
Main desktopower Macintosh g4 400mhz highly upgraded
Main laptop
secondary desktop
Third desktop
And for the time being I an going to stay with PowerPC until a quad core g5 2.5ghz is about as useless as a 512k mac is. Who is with me?
and yes it is cause I am cheap
My PowerMac is 7 yrs old now, runs 24/7, never gets any accumulation of dust on inside like other pcs I have owned, but I will have to compliment it with a new Mac mini, or laptop this fall, once I see what is available. If iTunes on the PPC no longer works with ios6, I may get both. I want to keep using the PowerMac even if only in reduced capacity for legacy programs, and backup.
Just got a dual processor 1.8 GHz PowerMac with Radeon 9600. Put in an SSD and will be upgrading RAM to 4GB. It will replace my office iMac G5.
Sorry, but i just upgraded to a 17" MacBook Pro, i still use my eMacs and G4 though, but much less than before.
Got tired of Lion, went back to my Powerbook G4 1.67 from a black macbook 2.4GHz with SSD.
I can't explain but I keep coming back to Leopard.
I can't explain but I keep coming back to Leopard.
Oh, I think I know why..
Leopard was the LAST true Mac OS X before all the IOS garbage integrated. Maybe Snow Leopard is also, but anything after Snow is all toys. Lion and ML are just toy OS'es.
Leopard was the LAST true Mac OS X before all the IOS garbage integrated. Maybe Snow Leopard is also, but anything after Snow is all toys. Lion and ML are just toy OS'es.
Oh, I think I know why..
Leopard was the LAST true Mac OS X before all the IOS garbage integrated. Maybe Snow Leopard is also, but anything after Snow is all toys. Lion and ML are just toy OS'es.
I guess I would agree. Lion and ML feels like not a real operating system for a normal computer.
And besides, the keyboard on my powerbook really feels good on my finger tips. The travel of the key is just enough not too deep, not to shallow. It is just perfect. I just wish they would bring back this keyboard to their Intel machines.
Oh, I think I know why..
Leopard was the LAST true Mac OS X before all the IOS garbage integrated. Maybe Snow Leopard is also, but anything after Snow is all toys. Lion and ML are just toy OS'es.
Snow Leopard is the last true OS X version that I have seen worth using... Lion and Mountain Lion are both bloated, not as quick, shorten the battery lives of many notebooks, and the features just aren't worth it and get in the way of productivity.
I like ml better than tiger I'll tell you that. You need a multi touch trackpad though in order to experience it.
The notification center in ML holds a lot of promise (assuming other applications start to use it) and having a "supported" iMessage client it quite handy (was using the beta version on Lion) the G5 in the other office is still stuck at 10.4.11 because of some software that just didn't take well to 10.5.x, its still just as usable with TenFourFox for web surfing as any other machine I use on a day-to-day basis (I turn flash off on any browser I use anyway, so the loss of plugin support never really bothered me)
I want to hear some further elaboration on the opinion that the OS's beyond Snow Leopard are toys. I have no experience what so ever with anything greater than Leopard so I'm not here to defend them, but I do want to know why they are concidered "bloated toys". Honestly it seems like exaggerated statements.
Well, Apple changed something under the hood which prevents a lot of apps from not working in Lion/upwards. One of the examples I used in the legacy thread is that Bryce, a 3D landscape rendering application, is one of them. They don't have a Mac developer at the moment, so by the time they do, it'll only work on whatever is after Mountain Lion.
Front Row doesn't work for a similar reason. It pops up a similar error in Console about a backend being removed.
There's also too much going on in the background. You know how Android has issues with memory? Well, it feels like the same problem on OS X now, except you have 4GB+ and it does the same thing. Safari uses an entire gig of RAM for whatever reason, and it seems like everything else is always trying to hog it. I mean, what's the point in having 4GB when I can only use 2GB for my own use?
I like Launchpad A LOT, but I feel that it's really lacking in features and that you can't customize it enough. But it's probably one of those services hogging up my memory to begin with.
It's the little features they put in that make the OS suffer, but at least in ML I haven't had the bug where it installed a non-existing update and destroyed the drive.
Front Row doesn't work for a similar reason. It pops up a similar error in Console about a backend being removed.
There's also too much going on in the background. You know how Android has issues with memory? Well, it feels like the same problem on OS X now, except you have 4GB+ and it does the same thing. Safari uses an entire gig of RAM for whatever reason, and it seems like everything else is always trying to hog it. I mean, what's the point in having 4GB when I can only use 2GB for my own use?
I like Launchpad A LOT, but I feel that it's really lacking in features and that you can't customize it enough. But it's probably one of those services hogging up my memory to begin with.
It's the little features they put in that make the OS suffer, but at least in ML I haven't had the bug where it installed a non-existing update and destroyed the drive.
I like Snow Leopard a lot far more than Leopard kinda on par with Tiger. But things have changed for both the better and worse. Lion was a disaster it was and still is sluggish even on awesome hardware, but it did open OSX to a whole new world of graphics cards and capabilities, but as we know erased Rosetta. Memory management has improved in both Lion and Mountain Lion. My G5 will go through all 10GB of RAM and start swapping during normal use it's almost to the point where I want to throw more RAM at it but it just delays the inevitable "purge". My portables both have 8 and rarely go above 5 doing 80% of what Quad does memory management has been improving. Lion simply uses more RAM than Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion even though it Manages better.
The iOS bloat I suppose it's there but I set all my computers up the same to include the icons being in the same sequence on the dock so I really don't notice. Mountain Lion runs just as fast one the C2D MacBook as it does the i5 MBP both on SSD's and both with 8GB RAM. There are things I miss about Snow Leopard but I like Mountain Lion just the same. What I don't like and will drive me away is:
The iOS bloat I suppose it's there but I set all my computers up the same to include the icons being in the same sequence on the dock so I really don't notice. Mountain Lion runs just as fast one the C2D MacBook as it does the i5 MBP both on SSD's and both with 8GB RAM. There are things I miss about Snow Leopard but I like Mountain Lion just the same. What I don't like and will drive me away is:
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I agree the Lion seemed to have its fair share of bugs (far more than my expectation of a .0 release, there are *always* going to be some issues)
For example the wifi issue (wifi not connecting from sleep if you stopped a time machine backup half way though) took until 10.7.4 to be killed off
Mountain Lion seems to me to be (in Microsoft terms): Lion SP1, I've have no issues with any of the systems I've upgraded (two MacBook Pros, a 2010 Mini, and a late model C2D 27" iMac)
The removal of Rosetta in Lion was a little painful, I never paid much attention to which applications I had were legacy code (it turns out the solitaire game my wife played was running via Rosetta ... oops!) I kinda wish it was left in as a downloadable option.
All of my Macs (at least the Intel ones) are running 8gb of RAM and only my Mini hits swap with any regularity (3 Win7 Parallel VMs + normal application load will do that)
In summary I wouldn't call it a "Toy OS" the feature that remind me of iOS can be easily removed from the dock, and never looked at again, and the mouse scroll direction (which is now the first thing I change on any mac I sit down in front of) is an easy fix as well.
For example the wifi issue (wifi not connecting from sleep if you stopped a time machine backup half way though) took until 10.7.4 to be killed off
Mountain Lion seems to me to be (in Microsoft terms): Lion SP1, I've have no issues with any of the systems I've upgraded (two MacBook Pros, a 2010 Mini, and a late model C2D 27" iMac)
The removal of Rosetta in Lion was a little painful, I never paid much attention to which applications I had were legacy code (it turns out the solitaire game my wife played was running via Rosetta ... oops!) I kinda wish it was left in as a downloadable option.
All of my Macs (at least the Intel ones) are running 8gb of RAM and only my Mini hits swap with any regularity (3 Win7 Parallel VMs + normal application load will do that)
In summary I wouldn't call it a "Toy OS" the feature that remind me of iOS can be easily removed from the dock, and never looked at again, and the mouse scroll direction (which is now the first thing I change on any mac I sit down in front of) is an easy fix as well.
The thing I hated about Lion was the eye candy taking away from the user experience with no way to reverse it - like Mission Control forcing you to wait for the animation to complete, or the App Store forcing you to watch Launchpads' slow animation of a new app dropping into it. Went back to Snow Leopard.
Still only use my Snowy Macbook when I need to sit in the garden and type, though, my G5 tower is still a much stronger all round performer.
Still only use my Snowy Macbook when I need to sit in the garden and type, though, my G5 tower is still a much stronger all round performer.
iTunes 10.7 Drops PowerPC support
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1576
Originally Posted by sucramdi *
The version of iTunes 10 on my PowerBook G4 won't recognize my iPhone running the iOS 6 beta.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1576
Originally Posted by sucramdi *
The version of iTunes 10 on my PowerBook G4 won't recognize my iPhone running the iOS 6 beta.
PowerMac 9600
I was just looking for some ram and a Sonnet G4 1ghz for my PowerMac 9600/350(I still use it for nostalgia). and stumbled on this thread searching for how to synch my Palm Pixi Plus to my Mac. I use my MacBook 10.5.8 as my daily(holding out for a MacBook Pro). The iBook G4 has been acting up since the wife poured coffee on it. The Macintosh SE II is in the storage. iMac Snow is hiding somewhere and the eMac is keeping the SE in store. Can't lt go of these babies.
I was just looking for some ram and a Sonnet G4 1ghz for my PowerMac 9600/350(I still use it for nostalgia). and stumbled on this thread searching for how to synch my Palm Pixi Plus to my Mac. I use my MacBook 10.5.8 as my daily(holding out for a MacBook Pro). The iBook G4 has been acting up since the wife poured coffee on it. The Macintosh SE II is in the storage. iMac Snow is hiding somewhere and the eMac is keeping the SE in store. Can't lt go of these babies.
I use it for work and picture editing.
Until it burns like my previous ibook G3 (burned 5 months ago) I will not replace it haha
May be next time I'll get a powerbook G4
Until it burns like my previous ibook G3 (burned 5 months ago) I will not replace it haha
May be next time I'll get a powerbook G4
Main desktop
Main laptop
secondary desktop
Third desktop
What Mac OS are you running on all of these? And why 4 computers? I find literally no need for 2 computers (unless we're talking desktop and laptop).