10.3 aka panther on legacy Macs? |
May, 31, 2003 5:14 PM |
rampel183 |
2 questions: 1. Is 10.3 an upgrade (free?) or a complete new OS? 2. How will it install on Legacy Macs? (9600 + Sonnet 800 G4) |
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RE: 10.3 aka panther on legacy Macs? |
June, 02, 2003 4:35 PM |
nick.ashton |
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Regarding tippingj's post Maybe he would like to share with the rest of us which rumour site the "Apparently they are cutting Classic out of it." quote came from. Apple need all the customers they can get if their single digit market share isn't to shrink to no digits. Classic has absolutely no overhead for people who don't need to run it and is a great selling point for customers who want to upgrade to a newer machine and OS without having to repurchase all their apps at the same time. Bear in mind that a new copy of Photoshop, Quark and Illustrator together will cost about as much as a top end PowerMac. Apple have enough trouble trying to keep their existing professional customers loyal without doubling the cost of an upgrade at a stroke. Cutting Classic out of 10.3 might be a bonanza for the software companies - users will have to buy an OS X (or more likely a PC) version of the application they need to run - but there's no benefit to Apple at all. I do agree, however, that Apple have no incentive to encourage the use of OS X on old world machines. But since they have already made it clear that these machines are unsupported they have neatly sidestepped the problems associated with bug fixing them (that's why we all use this forum to discuss problems). So unless they think they will generate a large number of new hardware sales there probably isn't much sense in deliberately making it more difficult. That said, they may well withdraw official support for machines like beige G3's which are already plagued with many of the problems that afflict old world machines. And they already do not support the original G3 PowerBooks. I would also not be surprised if machines with non-Quartz Extreme capable graphics cards were relegated to the unsupported list. Anyway, come June 23 we'll all have a much better idea of where its' going with the release of the first beta to developers at WWDC. |
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RE: 10.3 aka panther on legacy Macs? |
June, 02, 2003 1:56 PM |
tippingj |
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I'm betting that MOSX 10.3 will have a lot of smarts for new-world machines only. Apparently they are cutting Classic out of it. From apples view, why would you want MOSX running on Oldworld? MOSX is geared towards eye-candy, oldworld doesn't cut that, and to Apple oldworld makes MOSX look bad from a eye-standpoint. And anyhow. Apple'd want to spend the extra R/D to make people buy new expensive macs as opposed to it running on old cheap macs. |
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RE: 10.3 aka panther on legacy Macs? |
May, 31, 2003 7:00 PM |
gabb |
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1. Its probably not free, its going to be like Jaguar, once a year money making opportunity for Apple...it is a major upgrade. 2. Ryan said we don't have to worry about it for now. Developer copies of Panther will be given out in June @ WWD in Cali |
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