On Feb 23, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Feb 23, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Fabian Fang wrote: > >> Until Lion is released in the coming months, Leopard and Snow Leopard are >> the current and latest Mac OS. It makes good sense for members of the >> G-Group to join our Leopard Group to seek or provide assistance. > > Sorry to continue the meta-discussion, but I'd really like to add my 2 cents. > > No it does not. Looking at the posting rates and subscriber numbers of all > these myriad LEM lists, it's very clear that almost all of the actual action > is in just a handful of lists. Continual splitting of groups into finer and > finer-grained buckets merely serves to dilute possible support and makes it > very hard to find answers; I cannot count how many times I've seen someone > ask a question on one list that was JUST ANSWERED, in great and satisfactory > detail, on another list. > > I like to analogize the current state of the LEM lists to the 'Performa' > years at Apple "I have a perfoma 624a!" "Well I have a Performa 634...and > it's a completely different machine!" > > When Steve Jobs came back to Apple he reduced the model count to 4: PowerMac > and PowerBook, iMac and iBook. That was the beginning of the resurgence, and > for a good reason...it instantly clarified and simplified the choices. > > If I were king of the forest, all these myriad LEM lists would be reduced to > a handful: > > 68K Macs (both laptop and desktops, because these are waaay obsolete by now.) > OldWorld Macs (PowerPC old world machines, both laptops and desktops as > above.) > PowerPC desktops (covering pci-based PowerMacs from the iMac and beige 60x > and G3 models up through the G5 models, both PowerMac and iMac.) > PowerPC laptops (covering all New World Powerbooks and iBooks) > Intel desktops (covering all intel-based desktop systems Mac Pros and iMacs) > Intel laptops (covering all models of MacBook.) > LEMSwap (of course!)
I'd even cut it some more but that's a great start! 1. 68K of all flavors 2. Pre "G" Power Macs of all flavors 3. "G" Power Macs of all flavors 4. Intel Macs of all flavors 5. Software group maybe Consolidation always results in greater efficiencies. After spending a good part of my life working with process(s), simplification is always the quickest route to solutions. Just my 4ยข worth... JT -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
