Leopard Server hardware requirements?

[James Childers]

I have to admit that this entire discussion seems a bit silly to me.  
Apple has announced that machines that are less than 867MHz will be  
unsupported by Leopard, e.g. you can still run it, but they don't  
recommend it and will not be able to provide technical support  
thereby. This seems a perfectly healthy balance between introducing  
new features and maintaining compatibility with older machines.

This is for Leopard, not Leopard Server, about which no announcement  
has yet been made.

Where I work, we had a couple of SGI machines that sat in a corner  
for literally years without significant upgrades beyond security  
patches, rarely-to-the-point-of-never needed a reboot... and were  
responsible for handling *credit card transactions*. This was, to say  
the least, a critical part of our business. But those boxes just sat  
there and did their jobs. No one cared that they didn't run The  
Latest, because that is not what was important about them.

Moral: If the box that is running OS X Server is doing its job well,  
then don't upgrade it. But if there are compelling features in  
Leopard Server then it is by no means too much to ask that the box it  
runs on has more beef than a single core 867 (!) MHz processor, i.e.  
anything bought before Q3 2001.

Apple will probably not provide technical support for the latest  
version of OS X to machines that are 5-6+ years old. This is not  
surprising.

-= J