[normanpubbie]

I'm not a Mac but I wondered about the writer's comments (2 mentions) about no support for PowerPC in Snow Leopard. I guess this means that Snow Leopard won't work on these machines.

Apple sold a lot of PowerPCs. Aren't a lot of them still in use?

[normanpubbie]

I guess the Swordmakers are boarding the ship right about now. Have a fun time?! Can anyone else answer my question?

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Apple sold a lot of PowerPCs. Aren't a lot of them still in use?"

Yes, including two PowerBook G4s here, six years old and still going strong. They're running 10.5.8 Leopard. Apple continues to maintain Leopard, so I have no problem with this approach.

[SunkenCiv]

There are a lot of them, mainly because they last a long time. This one I’m using is a PowerMac 7600, hmm, got it in 1995? 1996? Have to look it up, don’t feel like it. I probably should shut down sometime and replace the tiny original hard drive. It has never been reformatted, and is SCSI, so I’d probably move the 18 gb outboard SCSI drive (10,000 RPM IBM drive) into the CPU, and use the gigantic and cheap external drives, using Firewire. This runs 9.2.2 of the OS, which is the last “classic” version. Used to run 9.2.1, which is officially the max for this machine, but I found something online to make 9.2.2 install. There’s a way or two to install OS X on these machines as well, might be amusing. Could just install each OS on a different drive and boot as needed.

But anyway, that said, Apple’s switch to Intel took place four years ago, and (as someone noted) Apple continues to upgrade Leopard which supports PPC. I’m not what you’d call an early adopter, obviously, but my next CPU (whenever that happens, and it won’t be soon) will be a Mac Pro laptop, unless something compelling emerges by the time I’m ready. :’)