PowerPC Support in Mac OS X 10.6 After All?

[smartalic34]

It was known for "Snow Leopard" to run much more efficient than "Leopard", including if they still support the subject on GPU's acting somewhat as a co-processor, for ANY mac that runs 10.6. I think it'll be a slight mistake for Apple to completely drop the PPC support, for many out there still own G4's, like me.

it appears that only a few (i.e. newest) GPUs will be supported by the OpenCL "co-processor" technology... unless a miracle happens and Apple goes back and adds older ones over time. not even the ATI Radeon X1600 in my MBP is supported...

 

[zmttoxics]

It was known for "Snow Leopard" to run much more efficient than "Leopard", including if they still support the subject on GPU's acting somewhat as a co-processor, for ANY mac that runs 10.6. I think it'll be a slight mistake for Apple to completely drop the PPC support, for many out there still own G4's, like me.

PPC code is overhead at this point. Making things more efficient also means no more accounting for PPC.

 

[davidlv]

Those G5s available less than two years ago are really having a tough time with Leopard.

Your comment is just the opposite of my experience, on a G5 2.0GHz dual core late-2005 model with PCIe slots, 2 500GB HDs and 5 GB of RAM. Tiger works well on this machine but Leopard works even better, even though the video card is rather lame (the lowest power card available in 2005, the NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE. I have noticed no "tough time" episodes whatsoever. In fact it is rock solid. No crashes, no glitches, no unexpected "WTF" episodes, etc. So just what do you mean? And since Leopard works as well as it does, I would expect that the work done on SL to streamline the OS would be welcome on a PPC machine if Apple does go that route.

 

[jtt]

So, is this conformation of PPC support?

 

[nuckinfutz]

So, is this conformation of PPC support?

No confirmation of PPC's death.

 

[pdjudd]

So, is this conformation of PPC support?

No. The official word from Apple is that it will only be for Intel Macs.

 

[zmttoxics]

So, is this conformation of PPC support?

PPC isn't dead, but it is to Apple.

 

[SkyBell]

I wonder how long it will be before "10.6 Only" apps start appearing. That's when I'll be a little ticked.

 

[nuckinfutz]

I wonder how long it will be before "10.6 Only" apps start appearing. That's when I'll be a little ticked.

Well any current "Intel only" app is likely to be delivered on Snow Leopard as there's little point on supporting two different builds of Leopard on Intel if you're not going to support PPC.

I think PPC users still have time. It took roughly a year after Leopard's release before there were a bunch of Leopard only apps.

 

[hvfsl]

it appears that only a few (i.e. newest) GPUs will be supported by the OpenCL "co-processor" technology... unless a miracle happens and Apple goes back and adds older ones over time. not even the ATI Radeon X1600 in my MBP is supported...

That's probably because the X1600 lacks a lot of the features that opencl needs. Don't forget it is a Direct X9 card in the PC world, while the graphics cards that currently ship with Macs are DX10/10.1.

 

[smartalic34]

That's probably because the X1600 lacks a lot of the features that opencl needs. Don't forget it is a Direct X9 card in the PC world, while the graphics cards that currently ship with Macs are DX10/10.1.

oh, I agree. I was just saying what I did in response to Sawtooth's post to let that person know that OpenCL won't be supported on every mac, thus eliminating their proposed reason why 10.6 should support PPC. my argument was that if they arent supporting the X1600, no way are they supporting G4-era GPUs (as you said, the cards probably cant do it)

just hope GrandCentral technology gives me a boost

 

[MacMaster1000]

Yes

messedkid said:
IMO, it would have been a smart move to drop PPC support.

Intel is the new way to go. Either upgrade if you want a new OS, or stick with Tiger or Leopard. It's called progress people.





Vote NO on PPC support for 10.6!!!

I vote yes because my Leopard is running like JUNK!!
Stupid OLD MACS ARE JUNK! LISTEN TO ME MESSEDKID (REALLY YOU ARE A "MESSED KID")!
TO MESSEDKID!

 

[Intell]

Why did you revive a five year old thread?