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| New Intels coming out by June, 2006. New OS coming out by end of 2006. So the Intels are going to be running Tiger for 6 months? That doesn't seem right somehow. Although maybe it's best to stager the transition ... a new chip AND a new OS all at once might be a bit too much ... :) --] 22:45, 17 July 2005 (UTC) | New Intels coming out by June, 2006. New OS coming out by end of 2006. So the Intels are going to be running Tiger for 6 months? That doesn't seem right somehow. Although maybe it's best to stager the transition ... a new chip AND a new OS all at once might be a bit too much ... :) --] 22:45, 17 July 2005 (UTC) | ||
| Whether it "seems right" or not, that's evidently the plan. The developer Intel machines are already running Tiger, so it's actually more like 18 months of Tiger-x86. ] 02:22, 18 July 2005 (UTC) | |||
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Could someone place a link of some sort to this article that shows the accuracy of the information therein? It's not that I don't believe what's here, I am just curious to see where it comes from. I am particularly interested in hearing about the PowerPC/x86 support that is going to be simulataneously supported in this new OS. I was under the impression that Tiger was going to be the "end-of-the-line" OS for PowerPC systems. It's very interesting to see things stating otherwise. mdjkarazim 2005-07-07 18:27:25 (UTC)
Jobs' WWDC keynote address would be a good first reference: FYI, Apple continued supplying OS updates that would run on their old 68K machines for almost four years after introducing the PowerPC architecture, and they've been more than happy to sell $129 OS X updates to G3 owners for the last few years. They might conceivably drop support for the old G3 models in Leopard, but they're not about to abandon people who are just buying G4 PowerBooks and G5 PowerMacs this year. Tverbeek 7 July 2005 19:04 (UTC)
New Intels coming out by June, 2006. New OS coming out by end of 2006. So the Intels are going to be running Tiger for 6 months? That doesn't seem right somehow. Although maybe it's best to stager the transition ... a new chip AND a new OS all at once might be a bit too much ... :) --Kwnd 22:45, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
Whether it "seems right" or not, that's evidently the plan. The developer Intel machines are already running Tiger, so it's actually more like 18 months of Tiger-x86. Tverbeek 02:22, 18 July 2005 (UTC)