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RIP G4 PowerMac

squiggleslash writes "An a not entirely surprising move, Apple has taken the PowerMac G4 out of production (see the last few paragraphs of this interesting article in Mac Central about the new G5s.) The PowerMac G4 had continued to be in production largely for users of Mac OS 9, and it had been speculated it might be kept as a lower-end headless entry-level Mac. You can still buy them from the Apple Store, while stocks last. On a seperate note, it looks like the 3GHz G5 is a while away, and G5 PowerBooks are no nearer production."

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  1. Re:Message from the Extreme Conclusions Club by Have+Blue · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's just as much the fault of the makers of QPS, for failing to port their product to OS X for the entire 5 years that Apple has been saying that OS 9 is a dead end.

  2. Re:Message from the Extreme Conclusions Club by Snowspinner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Will there necessarily be driver support for anything in your new Dell configuration under Windows 98?

    Very possibly not.

    Hell, I remember when I tried to take a Gateway laptop back from Windows Me to Windows 98 - total disaster. There was no display driver in existence for it under 98.

    So this argument overstates the case rather dramatically.