On Sep 21, 2005, at 7:56 AM, de Runtz, Lars wrote:
When Apple goes x86, do you think they will be maintaining a
secret, hidden, G series version of OS X?
It just dawned on me that that would be a smart plan...and be
justified under the same logic that they maintained an x86 version.
I suspect they will, just to keep in practice, and to keep Intel honest.
They're going to be supporting PPC-based systems for a long time to
come, certainly through at least the next two OS releases, which
should take us to 5-6 years or so post-transition.
There's going to be a fairly long 'tail' of PPC systems out there.
Yup. Especially as Apple said they wouldn't transition the G5s until
2 years after the initial summer announcement, we still have more
than 1.5 years of PPC Macs to be sold before we go all-Intel. Call
it a minimum of 5 years of PPC support before dropping it for good.
2003's OS 10.2.x still supported 6 year old Beige G3s. 2005's 10.4.x
supports 7 year old B&W G3s.
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