Ehh, as far as the minor updates are concerned, whoopty-do. They're *usually* not fixes for crashing. Further, with the exception of the FW800 drive issue [which was bad an Apple's part, of course], which affected an extremely small subset of customers, Panther has been fairly rock-solid.
While I'm sure most people [read: consumers] do not do this and would never do this, it is *always* preferred when doing an upgrade to at least do an archive and install.
. ..but G4's are all from Motorola* because IBM refuses** to use the Altivec unit.
That is *entirely* untrue.
Back in the days when Apple was having problems pumping out anything over 450 MHz G4s, they remedied the problem by, among other things, contracting out with IBM to produce G4 chips.
Apple's PR announcement on the matter can be found on their site.
Not only does IBM not "refuse" to use AltiVec, but they're going to be implementing it on the 970, albeit with much pressure from Apple.
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Ehh, as far as the minor updates are concerned, whoopty-do. They're *usually* not fixes for crashing. Further, with the exception of the FW800 drive issue [which was bad an Apple's part, of course], which affected an extremely small subset of customers, Panther has been fairly rock-solid.
While I'm sure most people [read: consumers] do not do this and would never do this, it is *always* preferred when doing an upgrade to at least do an archive and install.
. . .but G4's are all from Motorola* because IBM refuses** to use the Altivec unit.
That is *entirely* untrue.
Back in the days when Apple was having problems pumping out anything over 450 MHz G4s, they remedied the problem by, among other things, contracting out with IBM to produce G4 chips.
Apple's PR announcement on the matter can be found on their site.
Not only does IBM not "refuse" to use AltiVec, but they're going to be implementing it on the 970, albeit with much pressure from Apple.