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- SaintStryfe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I tried to forget about it. But I had to say that the earlier poster who wants service on an 8100... You do realize that system was amung the first PPC Macs, almost 12 years old? Do you go to Dell with your 11 year old Dell? Do you call HP up for help with that old DigItal? Or for that Packard Bell? I have a TRS-80, think Radio SHack will mine seeing me? HEll, think the Military will help me with that ENIAC I bought off eBay?
Common. Apple was, until four years ago selling updates to it. You can still get the free system updates from Apple (9 to 9.2 for example). And you can get the no-longer-sold box from re-sellers very inexpensive.
Apple has no reason to support something that old, and your far far too critical if you think Apple is wrong for not supporting they have not seen sence before we heard the name Monica Lewinsky.
We are all dumber for having heard your rambling, incoherent statement. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think it would be unwise for them to phase it out until Photoshop and Office along with the other pro-apps that prosumers buy are available in universal binary.
Of course they will phase it out.. but not completely or they will be throwing away possible consumers not willing to wait on the final versions of the apps they use in their job.
Personally I'm not a big fan of the MacBook pro.. it needs to live up to a lot. - kingsway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is the stupidest article about Apple in a while. They have already stated before that the 15 inch PB's are only available on a first come first serve basis, ever since the MBP came out.
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great now how about phasing IN the 12" MacBook Pro??
- jk_baller23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Guess my 15" PB isn't so bad then :-P. But, I wouldn't mind a MacBook Pro too :-)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Apple does this all the time... they always make you upgrade or die... say what you want about Microsoft.. they just recently stopped supporting windows 95! that came out 11 years ago"
Microsoft stopped extended support of Win95 in 2001, thats not recent.
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7864
By eliminating old hardware, Apple isn't forcing anyone to upgrade. This is the tech industry. New video cards come out every 6 months that trump the old ones. Its just the way it works, get used to it. - SaulBey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2This is not suprising...AT ALL!
They are going to phase out all powerpc hardware...why would they continue to make the 15" powerbook?
lame story... - The_Ox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ditto previous comment. ^^^^
- snowbooch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0using pro apps and photoshop on a powerbook isn't exactly super speedy anyways, so i dont see a huge gap developing. i'd imagine most users still have desktops for their performance intensive work
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i went to store.apple.com that is. :)
- yobkeeg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why is this surprising, they already launched the MacBook Pro... what are they waiting for? The longer they hang on to it the greater the risk of carrying obsolete inventory that nobody wants anymore..
- ninjakin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yup it is true, I work at my campus computer store and we can no longer order the 15'' PB any more but it still shows it under the regular site.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i went to the apple store and it's still there.
- nloui, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0anyone find it interesting that the G5 iMac is still showing up while the Powerbook is going away? Especially since it's the iMac that's actually shipping already.
- Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love apple, and I am planning on purchasing the MBP asap but c'mon.... This is like what color is the sky duh.
- dcharti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Some users on the site are commenting they've also seen it disappear from some Apple's edu sites across the U.S. Not sure about the rest of the world.
- Monkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.techcastuk.co.uk/?p=21 - article with regards to a final farewell to the PowerBook G4 and highlights some of the hardware and design achievements that the Apple team managed to accomplish with the revolutionary G4 PowerBook.
- ConradB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't think they should phase out the powerbooks until the pro apps and Photoshop are supported. Otherwise there will be no pro option of note available to someone who wants to run these apps.
- windsurf7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why would you want a slow 15" PB anyway? It's two chips behind.
- grayapple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Time for ebay kids!
- dpogni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the seems like *****.
- diggnationdevon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They should remove it. I wish everything was re-vamped and Intel-only but unfortunately they can't right now because of apps not being native yet.
- hyperpasta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The reason this makes sense is that under Rosetta, the apps will run as fast on a MacBook Pro as they did on the old PowerBooks - just not at crazy speed like the universal ones.
- Midnightbrewer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thatkidrich44 said:
"Apple does this all the time... they always make you upgrade or die... say what you want about Microsoft.. they just recently stopped supporting windows 95! that came out 11 years ago... "
Hardware != software. If Microsoft wants to support a legacy OS, they spend money creating a patch and hosting it on the server, but it is infinitely cheaper than keeping the parts and the manpower necessary to support legacy hardware. There's no comparison.
"Digg needs to really do a better job screening stories that are on the front page."
Stories are promoted by the users, not Kevin Rose. He has no control about what gets on there and what doesn't. That's the beauty of how it works. - bking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why is this news? as for it not being a good idea to phase out the G4 powerbook before photoshop goes universal, all i have to say is that the powerbook is not a good photoshop machine anyway. it can barely handle web browsing. if you're doing heavy lifting in photoshop, you're not doing it on a powerbook.
Powerbooks aren't the shiny,white ones, pal. My Powerbook G4 is two years old, and does fine on the internet, not to mention audio production, video editing, Adobe CS and After-Effects. - aa90digg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Who cares?...
- Deuterium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude you're gettin a Dell!!
- aznboi04k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0good. this will force everyone to move over to macbook pro! muahahahahhaha. apple rocks.
- SaulBey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is such crap. how has it been on the front page for so long? why do people digg stories that are not worth digging? why is this persistent problem going to be the downfall of digg.com?
- davdav, on 10/12/2007, -1/+013.3" MacBook Pro please.
- bking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0that chart shows the PPC lines. Of course there's no 15"
+this is lame - viroid100, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0what davdav said...
- expotice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0why is this news? as for it not being a good idea to phase out the G4 powerbook before photoshop goes universal, all i have to say is that the powerbook is not a good photoshop machine anyway. it can barely handle web browsing. if you're doing heavy lifting in photoshop, you're not doing it on a powerbook.
- thatkidrich44, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Apple does this all the time... they always make you upgrade or die... say what you want about Microsoft.. they just recently stopped supporting windows 95! that came out 11 years ago... do you know what OS apple was pimping 11 years ago.... 7.6 or some ***** like that... call apple and say.."Hi I am having trouble getting my Mac 8100 working..." they will laugh at you. But the truth is.. Apple customers are loyal sheep (as I write this from my G4 laptop) That is why people will spend $400 on an ipod, and then get a new one that will wipe your ass for you in 6 months. No Digg... and Message to Kevin Rose... Digg needs to really do a better job screening stories that are on the front page.
- hiro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0How on earth is this news? Jobs has even public announced this.
I've got another scoop "PowerPC chip to be phased out in near future!"
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