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Apple's Leopard Will Exclude 800MHz G4 Processors
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."
Whoever keeps deliberately mis-moderating needs to be banned. Who else has nostalgia for the good old days when a majority of Slashdot users ACTUALLY stopped to consider their own biases before moderating?
He kind of has a point in the last paragraph. Apple releases software on Windows to entice people with the Aqua look and feel, but all the Apple software on Windows really is kludgy, slow, and poorly-written. They really do put aesthetics ahead of performance and efficiency. On Apple it's a different story entirely, but on Windows Apple software really does blow. iTunes, for example, eats memory like a starving memory-eater, has all kinds of ridiculously dangerous bugs (ie all your music disappearing, some permanently deleted, tags being rewritten for no apparent reason, etc.). Don't even get me started on QuickTime on Windows :)
The Service Pack analogy is the closest thing Windows users have to these big cat releases, as each "proper" version of Windows has massive differences, more so than OS X, which the user can see straight away. 2000 -> XP was massive, XP -> Vista was even greater. Comparing 10.4 and 10.5 so far doesn't seem to yield the amount of changes Windows users experience with each new version. I'm not defending the analogy, or saying the parent was right, simply providing a reason as to why people might think that way.
Sorry to reply to myself - case in point - my iTunes is using 252.6MB of memory, and peaks at up to 10% of my CPU usage, and it's not even playing any music.