Comments on: Apple Officially Puts PowerPC Behind Them With Snow Leopard

By: Karel

Karel — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:37:32 +0000

What’s more stunning is that Snow Leopard drops support for building ppc64 applications. Which means that developers are forced to either build on Leopard or drop support for that architecture. I see no reason for this whatsoever apart from forcibly trying to make software companies drop ppc64 support.

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By: dan

dan — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:40:51 +0000

Rosetta has been included in the developer releases of Snow Leopard, so many speculate that it will make it into the final version as well.

That said, many apps will have compatibility issues. An evolving list can be found here:

http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/

Cheers!

By: Why Snow Leopard Matters

Why Snow Leopard Matters — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:06:04 +0000

[...] yes, Apple is dropping support for PowerPC. I’m assuming that stripping out the Rosetta code and the PowerPC code from universal [...]

By: John Herdman

John Herdman — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:06:46 +0000

Shame your link points to the wrong MacBook, the original MacBook had a Core Duo, not a Core 2 Duo chip in it.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:46:31 +0000

My PowerBook G4 1.33 GHz is still running well since its purchase in summer 2004. It’s been upgraded to 2GB RAM and a faster hard drive. Leopard runs great, and since I don’t do video/movie/graphic intensive stuff, this machine will probably get me through 2-3 yrs yet. On eBay, this model PB would go for $500-$700. But if other software besides Snow Leopard start to become Intel-only, then a PB replacement may be in order.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:23:39 +0000

Does anyone know if Snow Leopard will still allow PowerPC programs to run under Rosetta?

By: Brian Hogg

Brian Hogg — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:13:24 +0000

It seems funny that people would get up-in-arms by this move from Apple, which does indeed make tons of sense, considering they’re a “buy the new model now now now” kind of company. Apple’s gotten incredibly good at the car sales notion of making minor changes and selling it as a whole new model; it’s their bread and butter, just about.

Maybe the reason people can proudly tout their macs running for six years is that they move onto a new one every year, and their old boxes cease to be stressed as much. :)

By: Anon Y. Mouse

Anon Y. Mouse — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:56:04 +0000

Had to happen sometime.

By: CVBruce

CVBruce — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:45:56 +0000

No surprise here. I predicted this when Leopard came out. Apple supports an architecture for three years after they stop selling it. Happened for the 68K macs, and now it is happening for the PPC macs.