Comments on: Updated Leopard requirements to exclude 800MHz systems http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/24/updated-leopard-requirements-to-exclude-800mhz-systems/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:04:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Trent J. Townsend http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/24/updated-leopard-requirements-to-exclude-800mhz-systems/#comment-4139 Trent J. Townsend Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:35:12 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/24/updated-leopard-requirements-to-exclude-800mhz-systems/#comment-4139 Well I am certainly leaning toward the argument that Apple is doing it primarilly as an attempt at getting more money from previous customers, I also seem to recall that Apple's ppc binaries were optimized for size (to make them smaller) instead of optimizing them for raw performance. I suppose it could just be that it would be a real pain in the butt to make Leopard run adequately on the older ppc chips, tho I do recall Thom mentioning having talked with people who've used recent Leopard builds on such hardware and claiming performance to be satisfactory. *shrug* Well I am certainly leaning toward the argument that Apple is doing it primarilly as an attempt at getting more money from previous customers, I also seem to recall that Apple’s ppc binaries were optimized for size (to make them smaller) instead of optimizing them for raw performance.

I suppose it could just be that it would be a real pain in the butt to make Leopard run adequately on the older ppc chips, tho I do recall Thom mentioning having talked with people who’ve used recent Leopard builds on such hardware and claiming performance to be satisfactory.

*shrug*

]]> By: Ralf. http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/24/updated-leopard-requirements-to-exclude-800mhz-systems/#comment-4109 Ralf. Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:12:38 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/09/24/updated-leopard-requirements-to-exclude-800mhz-systems/#comment-4109 Every day a lot of crap "news" goes around the mac rumos sites and as long I can not read this on Apples site - I do not believe it. At the time the 867MHz PowerMac G4 comes out, they still had the "Good", "Better", "Best" model range. And at that time the "good" model was a singe CPU PowerMac G4 running at 867 MHz and the "best" model was a dual 800MHz G4 system. Following the Leopard requirements rumored today, this will leave out the "best" dual 800MHz system but include the single G4 867MHz system. This will make no sense to me. Every day a lot of crap “news” goes around the mac rumos sites and as long I can not read this on Apples site - I do not believe it.
At the time the 867MHz PowerMac G4 comes out, they still had the “Good”, “Better”, “Best” model range. And at that time the “good” model was a singe CPU PowerMac G4 running at 867 MHz and the “best” model was a dual 800MHz G4 system.
Following the Leopard requirements rumored today, this will leave out the “best” dual 800MHz system but include the single G4 867MHz system.
This will make no sense to me.

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