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It sounds like a nice upgrade in a number of respects, and as such things go it's pretty cheap--and I might even still have been able to get it for free with the package deal I got a couple of years back (details not important).
But it doesn't work on PowerPC-based machines. Which is what's sitting on my desk at home.
It's still a perfectly good machine. I've used it to do some pretty heavy-duty processing in my research a few years ago, it's got a decent amount of memory in it, it runs my games just fine...I could easily imagine using this machine for a couple of more years before needing to upgrade. The only substantial problem I ran into was a hard disk dying, and of course I replaced that.
I realize that Apple is basically a hardware company, and there really isn't a strong incentive to continue to support a processor architecture that they abandoned a few years ago. In their place I might have done the same.
But still, I'm bitter.
(Plus, snow leopards are cool, dammit.)
But it doesn't work on PowerPC-based machines. Which is what's sitting on my desk at home.
It's still a perfectly good machine. I've used it to do some pretty heavy-duty processing in my research a few years ago, it's got a decent amount of memory in it, it runs my games just fine...I could easily imagine using this machine for a couple of more years before needing to upgrade. The only substantial problem I ran into was a hard disk dying, and of course I replaced that.
I realize that Apple is basically a hardware company, and there really isn't a strong incentive to continue to support a processor architecture that they abandoned a few years ago. In their place I might have done the same.
But still, I'm bitter.
(Plus, snow leopards are cool, dammit.)
