No it won't they have done it time and time again. Time to upgrade.
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No it won't they have done it time and time again. Time to upgrade.
Time to Buy!
If you want to use an OS that will support old hardware forever then you should be using Windows. Your PowerPC is out of warranty which means Apple owes you nothing.
Snow Leopard is not Leopard with bug fixes. Bug fixes have continued to come in for Leopard and will for some time after Snow Leopards release. I don't know what problems you are having with it to complain. It is rock solid.
Snow Leopard is meant to be a leaner and faster OS that supports 64bit processing, multiple cores and new technologies based on Intel chips. The only way to do that is to get rid of legacy code. There would be no benefit to PowerPC users.
you must have leopard to use the $29 disk. if you don't, you can get a mac box set of the full snow leopard and the new iwork/ilife (which only work on leopard) for like $149-169.
intel systems only. no more PPC support.
these details were brought up when they announced the release month and price
as for the whole "how dare they not support PPC". Apple has been very upfront from day one of the intel systems that they would phase out support for PPC. only folks that never read the mac blogs will be in the dark over this issue. the last power macs were sold almost 3 full years ago so even with apple care they will be out of warranty. a lot of the folks using them will likely upgrade to a many times faster machine so no great issue. those that are still happily using them aren't likely to be doing any major tasks that need the kick of SL anyway.
PowerMac G5
We feel your pain but it's time to move on. Either that or enjoy using your G5 running Leopard. It's still a very good OS and a great PPC machine that should give you several more years of faithful service.
The last PowerMac G5 was discontinued in August of 2006. Snow Leopard is shipping in September of 2009. That 3 years later. I upgrade every three years once my Applecare runs out. I then sell my old machine or hand it down.
I don't think there is a case for a class action law suit. Everyone realizes that technology moves on.
We feel your pain but it's time to move on. Either that or enjoy using your G5 running Leopard. It's still a very good OS and a great PPC machine that should give you several more years of faithful service.
The last PowerMac G5 was discontinued in August of 2006. Snow Leopard is shipping in September of 2009. That 3 years later. I upgrade every three years once my Applecare runs out. I then sell my old machine or hand it down.
I don't think there is a case for a class action law suit. Everyone realizes that technology moves on.
Ya some of those wallpapers are pretty random and ugly for sure.
I am also sad about the QuickTime icon. The purple one was MUCH MORE SEXY and it matched the whole aurora purple theme much better!
I am also loosing hope for "Marble" and it is really surprising me that APPLE of all companies would let the UI design get so immensely hodege podge and miss matched now. WHAT IS GOING ON STEVE??? You are telling me that this mess of 10 different UI styles is not driving your OCD crazy even after you professed to make OS X UNIFORM with leopard? It is still FAR FROM uniform Steve!
Most important want in new release
They should build a way to adjust the DPI setting of the screen into their OS.
I have just connected a Mac to my 30in screen. (I had to go one more time to the shop, because it needed a special extra-bulky USB powered Dual-Link adaptor, which half of the time does not wake up from sleep mode). The screen has a pretty ordinary resolution of 122 DPI. But the Mac believes that it is 72 DPI, like if it was 1984 or something. There is no way to tell it the error of its ways, and the fonts and controls are soo tiny...
OK, after googling for ages I have found that there is a way: Download the Dev Tools from ADC, and start Quartz Debug -> User Interface Resolution. Here, you can change the DPI in very crude steps. And voilá: fonts readable, controls large. But many apps (but not all of them) are slightly messed up. The Mail icon goes astray. And the worst one, believe it or not, is the Finder!
Windows got this right for several years now! Also, I have forgotten how increadibly bad fonts look without ClearType... Ugh.
BTW: I have now learned that many Apple users simply change the resolution to make the fonts larger. So instead of using their TFTs native resolution, they only use a fraction and have to put up with interpolation. Others recommend using the zoom tool a lot...
They should build a way to adjust the DPI setting of the screen into their OS.
I have just connected a Mac to my 30in screen. (I had to go one more time to the shop, because it needed a special extra-bulky USB powered Dual-Link adaptor, which half of the time does not wake up from sleep mode). The screen has a pretty ordinary resolution of 122 DPI. But the Mac believes that it is 72 DPI, like if it was 1984 or something. There is no way to tell it the error of its ways, and the fonts and controls are soo tiny...
OK, after googling for ages I have found that there is a way: Download the Dev Tools from ADC, and start Quartz Debug -> User Interface Resolution. Here, you can change the DPI in very crude steps. And voilá: fonts readable, controls large. But many apps (but not all of them) are slightly messed up. The Mail icon goes astray. And the worst one, believe it or not, is the Finder!
Windows got this right for several years now! Also, I have forgotten how increadibly bad fonts look without ClearType... Ugh.
BTW: I have now learned that many Apple users simply change the resolution to make the fonts larger. So instead of using their TFTs native resolution, they only use a fraction and have to put up with interpolation. Others recommend using the zoom tool a lot...
just possible....
It just dawned on me that this could be a hint at a possible new UI(marble or what have you). To me, I'm thinking it's just a darker aqua: aqua buttons with QTX transparent black menus. This would make aqua look new... and quite a bit better. I would love transparent menus, it could be very useful. Sorry if you've heard this a million times, but the idea just came to me. What do you think? Logical, possible, better? I think that the black/platinumish Q makes the blue aqua button pop. It feels like a new UI entirely....
SG
It just dawned on me that this could be a hint at a possible new UI(marble or what have you). To me, I'm thinking it's just a darker aqua: aqua buttons with QTX transparent black menus. This would make aqua look new... and quite a bit better. I would love transparent menus, it could be very useful. Sorry if you've heard this a million times, but the idea just came to me. What do you think? Logical, possible, better? I think that the black/platinumish Q makes the blue aqua button pop. It feels like a new UI entirely....
SG
Well...
... like all good shareholders I've read their annual and environmental reports. Why should anyone who is concerned about these issues assume a company is doing the right thing. As a publicly traded corporation it's up to them to disclose their charitable donations. If they don't disclose them to their shareholders, logic dictates that we assume they don't make any.
If Apple is making an effort in this area I'll be the first to apologize in this forum for jumping to conclusions. Anyone from Apple care to comment?
... like all good shareholders I've read their annual and environmental reports. Why should anyone who is concerned about these issues assume a company is doing the right thing. As a publicly traded corporation it's up to them to disclose their charitable donations. If they don't disclose them to their shareholders, logic dictates that we assume they don't make any.
If Apple is making an effort in this area I'll be the first to apologize in this forum for jumping to conclusions. Anyone from Apple care to comment?
- When expanding or closing a PDF document in Preview, there's an awesome little open/close animation that looks like you're opening a transparent film cover (see movie file in attached zip)
- Mouse preferences changed (see attached pic)
- I'd really like a crop feature in Quicktime X's movie recordings
- Mouse preferences changed (see attached pic)
- I'd really like a crop feature in Quicktime X's movie recordings
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To all the PPC whiners, shut up. I understand you are pissed, I have 3 PPC computers that are used every day, but guess what? They are all still running Tiger! Really you are going to have at least another solid year of work out of your machine before anything stops supporting your machine and it will probably be 2-3 years before you run into actual trouble.
It's not like your machine is going to get slower or stop doing what it already does, sure Intel machines will get a nice boost of speed and it will probably encourage you to upgrade but Apple needs to do a little house keeping and get rid of PPC. It's sad I know, but it's all for the better, we really don't want OSX to become bloatware.
Only last month did I start using Leopard when I got my new MBP, however I plan on upgrading to Snow Leopard in September as it only cost me $10.
It's not like your machine is going to get slower or stop doing what it already does, sure Intel machines will get a nice boost of speed and it will probably encourage you to upgrade but Apple needs to do a little house keeping and get rid of PPC. It's sad I know, but it's all for the better, we really don't want OSX to become bloatware.
Only last month did I start using Leopard when I got my new MBP, however I plan on upgrading to Snow Leopard in September as it only cost me $10.
nope! Wrong-o... My Intel MBP, purchased Oct 06 came with Leopard. I'm still running it that way too.