On Feb 26, 2007, at 12:17 AM, jiho wrote:

Indeed, PPC machines will probably

disappear quite fast, the Mac community being usually a early-

adopting one. For example, many software makers already announce that

the next version of their software will only run on version 10.5 of

the OS (the next version to come) which is a paid upgrade from 10.4

and will be out only one year after 10.4... and no one seems to have

concerns with this (well, appart from me that is ;-) )

Well, I wouldn't go that far.

In fact, the Mac community also tends to *really* hang onto older hardware. Resale value of older macs seems to be higher than one could account for on pure technical abilities. And the only reason I've left my old G4 behind for this G5 is that the G4 got killed in our house fire. :-)

Another factor countering the 10.5 point is that a much higher percentage of mac owners do buy the OS upgrades. So unlike MS systems, a vendor supporting 10.5 can expect to get a lot of owners with older hardware. I forget off-hand where the last details were, but I just read an article about that in the last week or so.