Leopard Server hardware requirements?

[John C. Welch]

On 10/19/2007 20:06 PM, "Nat!" <nat at mulle-kybernetik.com> wrote:

>> > Ah, arbitrary. Because of course, you get to define "arbitrary"
>> > however you
>> > like, which, from what we can all see, is "anything that
>> > inconveniences
>> > Nat". Of course, were apple to, just as arbitrarily mind you, set up
>> > hardware restrictions that did NOT inconvenience you, you would of
>> > course,
>> > have no problems with that.
>> >
> I'd have no problems, if they made technical sense, but their main
> purpose is obviously to force people to buy newer hardware.

Christ, I thought this had died...sigh...first, unless you have actual proof
of this, you don¹t know why this was done, no matter how your sense of
righteous anger tells you.

As far as making people buy new hardware to get the new features...um...duh?
That would be part of that ³making a profit² thing. As it turns out, you
don¹t do that if no one ever upgrades.


>> > This has nothing whatsoever to do with Apple being arbitrary, and
>> > everything
>> > to do with the potential of YOU being inconvenienced. The sweet, sweet
>> > hypocrisy of your argument and positions is like nectar to me.
>> >
> 
> So when I read the tech specifications for Leopard (http://
> www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/) it's indeed "Mac computer with an
> Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor". Now
> of course Leopard can't technically run on a machine with say 800 Mhz
> and surely this isn't arbitrary and yeah, whatever...
> 
Unless you can show verifiable information from appropriate decision makers
at Apple that say ³We¹ll just cut them off at 867 because we don¹t like
those cheap suckers who won¹t upgrade², or something VERY similar, then
you¹re allowing your own anger to become reality. If that works for you,
great, but don¹t be surprised when the rest of the world doesn¹t march under
your banner, and esp. don¹t be surprised at people who point at you and
laugh.
> 
> We'll see, if this is helpfully enforced by the installer (like ...
> Firewire on Tiger).

Tasers. I want it enforced by high ­ voltage, low-amp shocks, and I want
audio.

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