Jeez I wish people actually knew something about Apple.
For one thing, PPC sucked at the time when Apple switched to Intel. 68k was no good for the purpose when Apple switched to the PPC. PPC would need a lot more cooling to reach the speeds for some things that x86 could do without all the heat. It's not about comparing MHz speeds necessarily, just things like CPU features. Apple switched to new CPUs and kept support for older CPUs each time for a long time.
Apple dropped all support for OS 9 applications when they switched to Intel. OS X was 4 years old. There couldn't possibly be any one seriously needing OS 9 support who wanted to get a new Mac at that time.
Apple dropped PPC support in Lion finally (Don't you think 7 years is enough time to transition?). This might suck for some (particularly old games) but it allows Apple to focus on making better, new things instead of trying to support as much backward-compatibility as possible (like the Microsoft model which sucks and the major reason why their security sucks).
Does Linux support running old stuff? NO. We progress, we don't live in the past. Apple does the same thing. Microsoft tries to ensure that things stay the way they are and only look like improvements (Windows Vista, with artificial layers of 'upgradability'; they did this with NT4 too with Server vs Workstation).
Backward compatibility is the reason I hate so-called 'enterprise computing'. It makes no sense to live in the past for so long (running IE6 when its 10+years old).
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Re: Planned obsolecence at its best
Date: 2011-09-25 09:04 am (UTC)For one thing, PPC sucked at the time when Apple switched to Intel. 68k was no good for the purpose when Apple switched to the PPC. PPC would need a lot more cooling to reach the speeds for some things that x86 could do without all the heat. It's not about comparing MHz speeds necessarily, just things like CPU features. Apple switched to new CPUs and kept support for older CPUs each time for a long time.
Apple dropped all support for OS 9 applications when they switched to Intel. OS X was 4 years old. There couldn't possibly be any one seriously needing OS 9 support who wanted to get a new Mac at that time.
Apple dropped PPC support in Lion finally (Don't you think 7 years is enough time to transition?). This might suck for some (particularly old games) but it allows Apple to focus on making better, new things instead of trying to support as much backward-compatibility as possible (like the Microsoft model which sucks and the major reason why their security sucks).
Does Linux support running old stuff? NO. We progress, we don't live in the past. Apple does the same thing. Microsoft tries to ensure that things stay the way they are and only look like improvements (Windows Vista, with artificial layers of 'upgradability'; they did this with NT4 too with Server vs Workstation).
Backward compatibility is the reason I hate so-called 'enterprise computing'. It makes no sense to live in the past for so long (running IE6 when its 10+years old).