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Mac OS 10.6 Aloha PowerPC

Submitted by Hawaii Cruiser on July 4, 2008 - 12:14pm. Unix and Mac OS X

So is this the final death knell for the PowerPC?:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/

16TB of RAM? That ship's leaving the harbor to a whole different world. Aloha 'Oe!

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Jon's picture

That's just got to do with RA

Submitted by Jon on July 5, 2008 - 10:24pm.

That's just got to do with RAM addressing. 32-bit addressing only gets to 4GB RAM. 64-bit gets to 16 exabytes of RAM. The 16TB of RAM thing Apple is using is only a small fraction of the space the 64-bit addressing can use. However, the G5 is a 64-bit CPU, you know? Eye-wink

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Yeah, I do know that, but my

Submitted by Hawaii Cruiser on July 5, 2008 - 11:36pm.

Yeah, I do know that, but my impression of that webpage has No-Powermac written all over it. We should take down wagers. Who will wager that Mac OS 10.6 will support the G5? Obviously, the G4's are out, but what would compel Apple to include the G5? Rioting, desertion, defamatory statements? I've been eyeballing some decent G5 Craigslist listings lately and I've yet to see a MacPro listing over here, so it's a topic of personal concern. We've discussed this topic before, but I'm throwing it out again since there's a lot more info about 10.6 now.

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Hmm...

Submitted by Hokusai on July 6, 2008 - 9:47pm.

Perhaps Apple will only be supporting Intel with 10.6. That doesn't mean that they will stop supporting 10.5 for a while. They may be releasing updates for both 10.5 and 10.6 concurrently until the next major release.

My Macbook will be fine. The B&W G3 doesn't really care as it is stuck at 10.4.9 with its Powerlogix upgrade anyway.

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Considering Apple is still pu

Submitted by moosemanmoo on July 7, 2008 - 12:18am.

Considering Apple is still pumping out updates for 10.4, I think there's no chance that 10.5 users will be left stranded, no matter who is supported by 10.6.

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And those of us still living in the dark ages ...

Submitted by cwsmith on July 7, 2008 - 12:47am.

... still see occasional updates for 10.3 as well.

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Re: Yeah, I do know that, but my

Submitted by GEOS on July 8, 2008 - 3:31pm.
Hawaii Cruiser wrote:
Yeah, I do know that, but my impression of that webpage has No-Powermac written all over it. We should take down wagers. Who will wager that Mac OS 10.6 will support the G5? Obviously, the G4's are out, but what would compel Apple to include the G5? Rioting, desertion, defamatory statements? I've been eyeballing some decent G5 Craigslist listings lately and I've yet to see a MacPro listing over here, so it's a topic of personal concern. We've discussed this topic before, but I'm throwing it out again since there's a lot more info about 10.6 now.
I'm in pretty much the same situation. I've seen some great deals on a few nice G5's (just last week there was a dual 2.3GHz with 3Gb of RAM for $850. I would really like to know if the G5 is going to be supported before I shell out that kind of cash.

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