Tiger requirements

[xarcom]

I've been looking at the Tech Spec page of Tiger and I'm a bit puzzled by this:

Requirements

* Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G3, G4 or G5 processor
* Built-in FireWire
* 256MB of RAM
* 3GB of available hard disk space (4GB if you install the developer tools)

Any ideas why ?

Also It seems that Tiger is DVD only:

What’s Included with Tiger
In the Box

* Installation DVD
* Xcode 2 developer tools
* Installation and setup guide
* Welcome to Mac OS X Tiger user guide

[Satcomer]

Originally Posted by xarcom

Any ideas why ?

Unlike Microsoft, Apple does not support ancient systems.

Originally Posted by xarcom

Also It seems that Tiger is DVD only:

You can always trade the DVD version with Apple for the CD version.

[fryke]

We've been discussing this (and other stuff) at the Tiger Developers forum here on macosx.com. There's a thread about the G3s you might want to read. The FW thing was already a requirement of Panther IIRC, although people have enjoyed Panther on machines without FW AFAIK without any problems.

[fryke]

(In fact the thread belongs here in the Tiger forum, so I moved it.)

[Tommo]

Ancient systems.....please.

Not gonna get many takers if all the USB memory sticks which seem to be the must have user accessory of the moment won't work. Don't find many firewire digital still cameras or card readers either.

If this is accurate it could well be another case of Apple aiming at its foot and pulling the trigger.

[fryke]

What do you mean exactly?

[Viro]

Good question, fryke.

[Tommo]

Well USB is hardly an ancient system and I cannot see what older systems Apple would weed out by this. The beige G3s did not have built in USB, which stopped people trying to run an OS whihc was a bit much for the systems, but the B/W ones have firewire so these would still be able to run the new OS?

Therefore I assume (maybe wrongly) that USB support under Tiger is not as good as under previous releases. Certainly from what I have seen of Tiger Apple appear to have tinker with some of the underlying standards, particularly networking which have resulted in problems with connectivity especially cross platform.