~pcwiz Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Snow Leopard is not going to support PPC. Live with it. Snow Leopard is about REFINEMENT, and almost all those REFINEMENTS have to do with Intel processors, and those REFINEMENTS are not going to work with PPC so what is the different between Snow Leopard and Leopard on PPC if there is no REFINEMENT. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144893-all-signs-point-to-no-ppc-in-106/page/2/#findComment-1049556 Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Snow Leopard is not going to support PPC. Live with it. Snow Leopard is about REFINEMENT, and almost all those REFINEMENTS have to do with Intel processors, and those REFINEMENTS are not going to work with PPC so what is the different between Snow Leopard and Leopard on PPC if there is no REFINEMENT. lets see.... they cant reduce the size of the os on ppc why? and they cant take advantage of the dual and quad core G5s why? and they can't take advantage of the powermac video cards why? so which intel-only REFINEMENTS, exactly, are you referring to? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144893-all-signs-point-to-no-ppc-in-106/page/2/#findComment-1049650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
InorganicMatter Posted January 21, 2009 Author Share Posted January 21, 2009 lets see.... they cant reduce the size of the os on ppc why? and they cant take advantage of the dual and quad core G5s why? and they can't take advantage of the powermac video cards why? They could if they wanted to. But they don't want to, and won't, because doing so literally doubles their workload, and only benefits the extremely small group of PPC holdouts. so which intel-only REFINEMENTS, exactly, are you referring to? Once you pick an architecture and say "screw the rest," then you can perform CPU-specific Assembly Code optimizations. The performance gains for doing so are huge. Keeping the dead PPC architecture around prevents them from optimizing for one specific architecture. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144893-all-signs-point-to-no-ppc-in-106/page/2/#findComment-1050151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 so which intel-only REFINEMENTS, exactly, are you referring to? Maybe Grand Central and 64 bit technology AFAIK both which only appy to Intel processors and are basically the major selling points of Snow Leopard. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144893-all-signs-point-to-no-ppc-in-106/page/2/#findComment-1050865 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 Sigh...here we go again. At the highest theoretical level, yes, in the same way Vista is TECHNICALLY superior to XP. For all practical purposes, PPC almost always performed slower than an equivalent Intel/AMD CPU. Sigh...here we go again. For all practical purposes, the PPC was faster than the equivalent Intel CPU when you used items (like a ton of {censored} in Photoshop) that had been optimized for the PPC processor's little quirks. Just like how Intel processors scream when you use things that are optimized for their little quirks. Now let's just stop the pissing contests here about things being different. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144893-all-signs-point-to-no-ppc-in-106/page/2/#findComment-1050990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
InorganicMatter Posted January 22, 2009 Author Share Posted January 22, 2009 Sigh...here we go again. For all practical purposes, the PPC was faster than the equivalent Intel CPU when you used items (like a ton of {censored} in Photoshop) that had been optimized for the PPC processor's little quirks. Just like how Intel processors scream when you use things that are optimized for their little quirks. I could bring loads of PPC vs x86 benchmarks out that prove my point, but I won't, since PPC is officially dead as of Snow Leoaprd build 10a222. I was right, now get over it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144893-all-signs-point-to-no-ppc-in-106/page/2/#findComment-1051522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I could bring loads of PPC vs x86 benchmarks out that prove my point, but I won't, since PPC is officially dead as of Snow Leoaprd build 10a222. I was right, now get over it. And I can bring out the opposite benchmarks that prove my point. Also, when comparing different processors, things have to be taken into account, such as what processor it was ported to (there are craptacular Intel to PPC ports in existence), whether or not the port took advantage of the quirks of the different processors, and things like that. Can we PLEASE stop this pissing contest? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144893-all-signs-point-to-no-ppc-in-106/page/2/#findComment-1052079 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Qaz Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Well, if this is all true and PPC support is lost in Snow Leopard. I've gotta say that I sold my iBook G4 at the right time. I just sold it today for 470$, which is pretty rediculous considering it's a late 2003 model with a 1.07GHz G4 and 768MBs of DDR1 with a 30GB HDD. Very satisfied. No I can go and buy a netbook and install OSX on it, having it run faster! Bwahahaha! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/144893-all-signs-point-to-no-ppc-in-106/page/2/#findComment-1065798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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