Snow Leopard

DavidKline · #1 June 30th, 2009, 02:40 PM

I've seen where Snow Leopard will support only Intel Macs. Is this true and will there probably be a work-around for this like X-Post Facto does for older Macs wanting to run Mac OSX?

Satcomer · #2 June 30th, 2009, 02:44 PM

Nope. The optimization is coming from stripping out the PPC legacy code and moving the reset of the code to 64 bit.

DavidKline · #3 June 30th, 2009, 03:18 PM

So Mac is abandoning the PPC platform from then on? Bad enough they went the way of Intel but to leave all these users stuck at a particular operating system with software being developed for the newest OS available we are forced to ditch our equipment and upgrade. Might as well buy a WIN machine for lot's less money.

tdg911 · #4 June 30th, 2009, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidKline

So Mac is abandoning the PPC platform from then on? Bad enough they went the way of Intel but to leave all these users stuck at a particular operating system with software being developed for the newest OS available we are forced to ditch our equipment and upgrade. Might as well buy a WIN machine for lot's less money.

And just because Apple went the Intel route your comparing a Windows machine to the new macs? sounds like you really dislike what your already currently running if you ask me. No comparison imho. A unix system vs windows? Guess you cannot please everyone...

Jesse714 · #5 June 30th, 2009, 08:52 PM

Na dude, you'd be suprised how well Snow leopard runs... and besides that, like tdg911 said, your going to compare a PPC mac with Leopard to a windows machine? Even my older 1.33ghz powerbook runs leopard like a champ, Its hard to compare it now that i have a macbook, but that was the first mac that i ever had, and i loved it, there's no way i could switch back to windows, Even if Windows 7 was really badass, i know for a fact that it STILL won't even compare to leopard. And snow leopard will blow Windows WAY out of the water. You can pick up macbooks on craigslist for 600-800. So if you really want to run snow leoard, consider putting your current mac on Ebay, and using some of that money to put towards a mac with an Intel processor. My 12in Powerbook goes for 550 with 1.25 gigs of ram, and leopard installed, not counting the the number of programs i have installed on it, like ilife iwork adobe cs4....
So if you want.. Go right ahead and buy a windows machine, its still going to be up in the 1000-1500 range AND up. But I know for a fact, that everytime you turn your windows computer on, your going to miss the apple logo with the little spinning wheel under it. And when you start getting viruses and spyware, trojans, adware, your system crashes all the time, Then your really really going to miss your old PPC.

kisuke3 · #6 June 30th, 2009, 09:31 PM

I agree. Technology is moving forward. If you want to stay behind that's your choice. Life is full of choices. Go with PC and I am 100% sure that someday you say'll I should've stayed with Mac. Been there, done that. Heard ALOT of people whine about it

Jesse714 · #7 June 30th, 2009, 09:36 PM

And Always remember, that a windows computer with 8 gigs of ram, and a 4.30ghz intel processor, isnt even as good as a mac with 4 gigs of ram, and a 2.16ghz intel processor.

Always always always remember A mac with half the specs as a pc, is actually doubled on the performance.

Anyway, Good luck with your viruses.

In the mean while, ill boot windows up in BOOT CAMP, and tell you how shitty windows 7 is, and how fast i took it off my mac.

kisuke3 · #8 June 30th, 2009, 10:14 PM

LOL! Windows is going down..By far the best OS that they had was XP.Vista and 7 are like the trashed version of mac. they copied alot.running out of ideas i guess. Im not bitter but the only good thing in windows are Games

because they offer more titles than a mac. Even if you go windows,i dont think anybody cares. There's like a billion people out there who's using mac anyway. not a loss