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For me this was foreseeable, a guy I know bought a PowerMac G5 in 2006, an expensive high end workstation, generally this type of machine can be used for 5 to 7
by zppx 16y ago
For me this was foreseeable, a guy I know bought a PowerMac G5 in 2006, an expensive high end workstation, generally this type of machine can be used for 5 to 7 years without much problems, if you upgrade the hardware it can last even longer, although you probably won't try to use it to deal with performance demanding taks, Apple slapped him in the face, he cannot even run Snow Leopard in a four years old workstation.
- zdw 16y agoApple announced the PPC -> Intel transition in June of of 2005, and the first Intel macs were release January 2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–Intel_transition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–Intel_transition The writing was on the wall for anyone looking to keep a machine for a long time.
- zppx 16y agoTrue, but it's a 4 years old machine, I do not know about you, but I do expect that a Workstation will be supported for 5 years at least, maybe this got lost in the world in which a guy buys a iPhone every year, back them Apple had no iOS devices, it was the Mac and iPod (which was a fairly simple environment), so I disagree that it was so simple to predict about that 4 years in the future you would be unable to upgrade to a new version, Apple did not said back them that you would be unable to run the a new version of the OS in 3 and a half years.