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Apple's Leopard Will Exclude 800MHz G4 Processors

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the older-tech-gets-forked dept.

goombah99 writes "According to AppleInsider, Apple is about to announce that Leopard will not support 800 MHz G4 PowerPC processors. Previously developers had been told that it would require at least an 800 MHz G4. But AppleInsider alleges only 867 MHz G4s and higher will now be supported because of speed issues, and testers have been told that the new OS 'cannot be installed' on lesser machines. This cutoff in minimum requirements means that all those original iMac flat screens and Titanium PowerBooks are now forked to the Tiger (10.4) Update Path."

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  1. You know, Leopords are cool and all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    But if you look closely - the fancy spotted skin, the sleek movements, fast and graceful -- it all screams gay.

    1. Re:You know, Leopords are cool and all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Why do you know so much about being gay?

    2. Re:You know, Leopords are cool and all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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    3. Re:You know, Leopords are cool and all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      But if you look closely - the fancy spotted skin, the sleek movements, fast and graceful -- it all screams gay. Of course it screams gay. It's Apple. Mac OS X is the OS named after pussies used by men who love cock.
  2. Money doesn't matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you don't mind paying the Apple Tax... don't get Apple. It means you don't get it. You would be happier with a Vista machine from Dell. If you have to look at the price tag, you aren't going to be happy... and even more importantly, Apple isn't going to be happy with you.

    With every $150 service pack released for OSX, Apple just proves again and again how little respect they have for their customers. As if the iPhone price gouge didn't remove all doubt. But money doesn't matter: not for the beautiful people who "get" it. You can always make more money, like SteveJob does. But can you get anything that looks as pretty sitting on your $10,000 desk or in your Prada purse...? Nope.

    And if the slowness of the operating system is an issue, or the lack of stability with Quicktime, or the fact that every piece of Apple software for Windows has a chance of killing the operating system... if all that hasn't convinced you that application stability and security need to take a backseat to pretty buttons and sleek shininess... you just aren't paying attention. That's how Apple works: if you are looking for a company which is going to put programming ahead of aesthetics... you had best look elsewhere. It means you don't get it.