InorganicMatter Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 It's official, Snow Leopard will require an Intel CPU: http://www.macrumors.com/2008/06/11/mac-os...owerpc-support/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 It's official, Snow Leopard will require an Intel CPU:http://www.macrumors.com/2008/06/11/mac-os...owerpc-support/ 9-12 GB of disk space. Whatever happened to "reducing the footprint"? It is too bad that they have to drop PowerPC support. Some PowerMacs etc are really quite powerful, and are even more powerful than many average PCs out there. To abandon all these classic PPC Macs is a pity... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-780086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
InorganicMatter Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 Some PowerMacs etc are really quite powerful, and are even more powerful than many average PCs out there. Debatable (and it has been done many times ). PPC is more "different" than "better" - it has different strengths and weaknesses than x86 has. To abandon all these classic PPC Macs is a pity... It's a necessary evil. Supporting multiple major hardware platforms quickly turns into a nightmare (as Microsoft has found out the hard way ). I think Snow Leopard will more of a "transition" OS than a major release. I think Leopard will be the last major Mac OS for legacy Macs, and Snow Leopard is going to be the bridge between PPC/Carbon and exclusive x64/Cocoa. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-780135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am...me Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 9-12 GB of disk space. Whatever happened to "reducing the footprint"? It is too bad that they have to drop PowerPC support. Some PowerMacs etc are really quite powerful, and are even more powerful than many average PCs out there. To abandon all these classic PPC Macs is a pity... with a clean install no printer drivers NOTHING but iLife it takes up about 21GB on my macbook pro. 9-12gb would be heaven Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-780148 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 You wish. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-780154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 My Leo install with iLife, iWork, Developer Tools, iPhone SDK, 10.5.2 Update and Leopard Graphics Update, a bunch of apps, and my own files takes up only 22GB. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-780157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 It's a necessary evil. Supporting multiple major hardware platforms quickly turns into a nightmare (as Microsoft has found out the hard way ). But there's a difference. Apple supports Intel Xeon, Intel CoreDuo (1 and 2), G5's, and G4's Microsoft supports Xeon, CoreDuo, Pentium, Celeron, AMD Turion, Athlon, Opteron, Phenom, and any other processor company out there (there are several). I'd hardly call what Apple supports a nightmare and I think it's a bad move to not support the G5's in Snow Leopard. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-780580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Microsoft supports Xeon, CoreDuo, Pentium, Celeron, AMD Turion, Athlon, Opteron, Phenom, and any other processor company out there (there are several).Those all use the exact same microprocessor architecture: x86.The PPC, ARM and x86 which Apple use are all quite different. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-780651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Also found here: http://gizmodo.com/5015495/snow-leopard-wi...usive-after-all Snow Leopard Will Not Support PowerPCs After All Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-780831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
InorganicMatter Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 Also found here: http://gizmodo.com/5015495/snow-leopard-wi...usive-after-all Yes, their logic is quite sound. Snow Leopard is supposed to make huge leaps in multicore and GPGPU processing, neither of which 99% of the old PowerPC's had (yes, there are still a few dual/quad G5's out there). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-780851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I told a friend of mine who uses a Power MAC G5 professionally (he is a professional photographer) that he is slowly being left out in the cold. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-781033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 That sucks, but this also means that there will be more for Snow Leopard. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-781058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 I still don't buy it. I mean, I don't really care (I'm on Intel), but just because the development builds are Intel-only doesn't mean the final product will be. The G5 was discontinued less than two years ago - I can't see Apple dropping OS support for it just yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-781751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
InorganicMatter Posted June 13, 2008 Author Share Posted June 13, 2008 I still don't buy it. I mean, I don't really care (I'm on Intel), but just because the development builds are Intel-only doesn't mean the final product will be. The G5 was discontinued less than two years ago - I can't see Apple dropping OS support for it just yet. I can easily see them dropping it. Nehalm will be out by the time Snow Leopard is released; Nehalm has 4 physical / 8 logical cores. Snow Leopard is all about multicore and 64-bit, both of which will be plentiful with Nehalm, and neither of which they can continue supporting with PowerPC. We have to progress at some point. Apple's doing what Vista should have done with 32-bit. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/110067-the-end-of-the-road-for-powerpc/#findComment-782071 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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