Apple announces system requirements for OS X Leopard 10.5
It looks like OS X 10.5 will need a fast-ish CPU to run. It has been reported at Apple Insider that OS X 10.5 will require “an Intel processor or a PowerPC G4 (867 MHz or faster) or G5 processor.” Other system requirements include a DVD drive, built-in FireWire, at least 512MB of RAM (additional recommended), and at least 9GB of hard disk space.
This shouldn’t come as too much of a shock as the minimum requirements for Windows Vista are a 1 GHz processor, 512 MB of system memory and a 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
Apparently what happened is that Apple engineers have recently decided that Leopard ran too slow on 800MHz PowerPC G4 systems. Support for those systems was subsequently pulled from the most recent pre-release copies of Leopard, which inform testers that the software “cannot be installed” on those computers.
The next PowerPC chip is the 867Mhz version which means a handful of Mac systems will be excluded from running Leopard including the 800MHz PowerBook G4 (Titanium), 800MHz PowerMac G4 (Quicksilver), 800MHz iMac G4, 800MHz iBook G4, and 800MHz eMac.
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Unlike Microsoft, I think Apple is advancing faster by ignoring any backward-compatibilities or supporting old machines. This somehow contradicts Steve’s idea of advancing technology which he exposed so clearly in his open letter to early iPhone users:
“there is always something better and less expensive on the horizon. The good news is that if you buy products from companies that support them well, like Apple tries to do, you will receive years of useful and satisfying service from them even as newer models are introduced.”
…hmm.
Looks like I will get an Athlon and return to the PC where I can upgrade to my hearts content. Now I know why Apple’s support for older machines has been faultering and its b/c of the PC world forcing intel on Apple. I now see Apple as not supporting anything G4 anymore. Personally, I hope each and every one of those intel macs gets VIRSUES, worms, and everything else which will bring down the machines because thats what Steve Jobs is getting now that he has alligned himself with Intel.
By becoming an x86 machine with mac os on it, the days of the intel macs will be surely numbered since now virus attackers will stop attacking PC’s and target macs through the nice technology of intel which sucks in my opinion. AMD is the way to go and it is they who desire to drive intel out of business FOREVER.
Long live the PowerPC!
Athlons are x86, just like Intel, so what’s your point? Simply using a different instruction set does not make you any more or less vulnerable. A virus has to live in an environment in order to spread, so you still need different versions of the same virus for different OSes. Nothing has changed there. As far as writing viruses for Apple: Unless the market share gets at least 5 times bigger than what it’s now, few will bother…
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Wow, you’re an idiot. Come back and comment when you have acquired a slight understanding of information technology.
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