macrumors.com— Image from LogicielMacLogicielMac publishes a screenshot of the system requirements for Mac OS X Snow Leopard which was seeded to developers this week.
Jun 11, 2008View in Crawl 4
Fortunately I also have a core2duo notebook dual booting XP and Hardy Heron. If I wanted to (I don't) I could upgrade it to Vista and probably even Windows 7 when it comes out. As much as I think the OS X box is a better computing experience it is disturbing to me to be told a 4 year old 2000 dollar computer is obsolete and might not support say Adobe CS5 apps when they come out despite sufficient hardware to do so. I an worried that Apple is becoming the iphone + glitz company and abandoning it's long loyal media content producers.
True enough and I will hang on to it, but I'll be VERY frustrated when the 10.6 only apps start coming out and I can't run them on a 5 year old top of the line "pro" media computer with optical out, etc. It isn't exactly filling me with good feelings for Apple I must say. At least I got it cheaper as a refurb, sigh...
XP will work very fine with 10 Year old PC _if_ user spares time/money to buy high quality RAM making it a bit more than average, like 2 GB RAM.Of course, Linux or FreeBSD is a way better solution for that PC. RAM suggestion is still valid.Does everyone have to run Photoshop in their PCs?
Trat I like Apple products better and I would be sad to give them up because OS X is more stable, doesn't get malware, supports open source more. has a better interface.etc. OTH if I am going to be told that a 2000 pro machine with 2.5 gigs of ram, dual processor, optical out, etc is obsolete after 4 years I am probably going to go elsewhere next time. That's just not a good return on investment, shrug. I may be an Apple fanboi but I'm not stupid. If I get a Dell quad core next time I know if I upgrade the video card etc I am probably looking at an 8+ year investment. I don't LIKE thinking this way as OS X is much nicer to use but facts are facts and I've switched back and forth a couple of times in the last 20 years. In 1991 I got a Mac Classic (yep I'm that ancient), then an LCIII, after that I got a 386 notebook though, and then built my own pcs between about 1996 and 2003, then I got an ibook and then a G5 tower. Now I've got the tower and a core2duo notebook. If Apple is going to screw me on the tower then they'll lose my business on the next media content creation computer upgrade get.BTW I am NOT all that impressed with Leopard upgrade compared to Tiger from Panther, are all Apple's tier one developers on the iphone now? :(
Closed AccountJun 12, 2008
Fortunately I also have a core2duo notebook dual booting XP and Hardy Heron. If I wanted to (I don't) I could upgrade it to Vista and probably even Windows 7 when it comes out. As much as I think the OS X box is a better computing experience it is disturbing to me to be told a 4 year old 2000 dollar computer is obsolete and might not support say Adobe CS5 apps when they come out despite sufficient hardware to do so. I an worried that Apple is becoming the iphone + glitz company and abandoning it's long loyal media content producers.
prosayikJun 12, 2008
Don't panic.This will ship "in about a year."Meaning you still have two years before the OS even comes out.(I have a Powerbook 12")
Closed AccountJun 12, 2008
True enough and I will hang on to it, but I'll be VERY frustrated when the 10.6 only apps start coming out and I can't run them on a 5 year old top of the line "pro" media computer with optical out, etc. It isn't exactly filling me with good feelings for Apple I must say. At least I got it cheaper as a refurb, sigh...
ilgazJun 12, 2008
XP will work very fine with 10 Year old PC _if_ user spares time/money to buy high quality RAM making it a bit more than average, like 2 GB RAM.Of course, Linux or FreeBSD is a way better solution for that PC. RAM suggestion is still valid.Does everyone have to run Photoshop in their PCs?
gemfinderJun 12, 2008
About 2 weeks. :/
Closed AccountJun 13, 2008
Trat I like Apple products better and I would be sad to give them up because OS X is more stable, doesn't get malware, supports open source more. has a better interface.etc. OTH if I am going to be told that a 2000 pro machine with 2.5 gigs of ram, dual processor, optical out, etc is obsolete after 4 years I am probably going to go elsewhere next time. That's just not a good return on investment, shrug. I may be an Apple fanboi but I'm not stupid. If I get a Dell quad core next time I know if I upgrade the video card etc I am probably looking at an 8+ year investment. I don't LIKE thinking this way as OS X is much nicer to use but facts are facts and I've switched back and forth a couple of times in the last 20 years. In 1991 I got a Mac Classic (yep I'm that ancient), then an LCIII, after that I got a 386 notebook though, and then built my own pcs between about 1996 and 2003, then I got an ibook and then a G5 tower. Now I've got the tower and a core2duo notebook. If Apple is going to screw me on the tower then they'll lose my business on the next media content creation computer upgrade get.BTW I am NOT all that impressed with Leopard upgrade compared to Tiger from Panther, are all Apple's tier one developers on the iphone now? :(