12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
6:03 a.m.
In summary, no, I entirely disagree. Apple jumped at
just about the
right time, and could not have done it much earlier. Before the Core
processors, the performance advantage just wasn't there, and before
2006 or so, too many people were still running Classic applications,
which wouldn't work on OS X/86.
Some of us still run them. The software works fine and a few things have
no good (or cheap) OS X equivalent. I'm actually stocking up on old PPC
hardware.
The problem is, of course, portables. Right now I'm still using my PowerPC
lappies but they are getting long in the tooth. Fortunately, running
Classic software on them is rarely critical, but if I'm made to start over
with an x86 laptop I might be looking at something else.
ObCC: Mac OS 9 4EVER!!! (almost on topic)
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