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Hello Everyone,
I am an avid Linux user and have recently picked up a couple of G4 PPC Macs off of craigslist just to play around with. After getting a good feel for the Mac OS, I have found myself really enjoying these computers. I'm not a high end computer user on the "hardware" level and don't need to run bleeding edge games or 3d engineering software. Just browse the web, create docs, photoshop, and other basic things. So getting a brand new Mac isn't really something I need to invest in.
My main concern is that even though I am ok working with older PPC hardware, Apple has now changed to Intel and therefore the Software is now written pirmarily for Intel. Does anyone know what the 3rd party software support is like now (or will be like in the near future) for PPC Mac OS? For example, are companies like Adobe going to abandon PPC ports of their software? I have a chance to pick up a couple of older Macs dirt cheap and would base my decision partly on this.
Thanks!
Swill
I am an avid Linux user and have recently picked up a couple of G4 PPC Macs off of craigslist just to play around with. After getting a good feel for the Mac OS, I have found myself really enjoying these computers. I'm not a high end computer user on the "hardware" level and don't need to run bleeding edge games or 3d engineering software. Just browse the web, create docs, photoshop, and other basic things. So getting a brand new Mac isn't really something I need to invest in.
My main concern is that even though I am ok working with older PPC hardware, Apple has now changed to Intel and therefore the Software is now written pirmarily for Intel. Does anyone know what the 3rd party software support is like now (or will be like in the near future) for PPC Mac OS? For example, are companies like Adobe going to abandon PPC ports of their software? I have a chance to pick up a couple of older Macs dirt cheap and would base my decision partly on this.
Thanks!
Swill