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No Flash Player support for my PPC OS X 10.4 PowerBook?
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1246972"><p>Bob's advice was a little undiplomatic IMO but essentially, he's right.</p><p></p><p>a. the LAST PowerPC Mac rolled out in 2006. That was five years ago, or about the expected useful lifetime of a home computer.</p><p></p><p>b. While SOME developers choose to continue to offer PPC-supported versions, their number has been dwindling for YEARS. Adobe is hardly alone on this.</p><p></p><p>c. Flash, being a very badly-written bit of code, requires far more resources than it should. To be blunt, it needs more than that computer can adequately provide.</p><p></p><p>So, should you trash it? Nope! Not if everything else is working well.</p><p></p><p>But what you DO need to do (or she needs to do I should say) is to accept the fact that in computer terms, her computer is OLD and UNDERPOWERED and there are going to be limits to what it can do. Modern Flash is one of those limits, and you will run into others more and more often as time goes on.</p><p></p><p>I know some people think their purchases should last nearly forever, but I always ask them how many cars they've owned and that usually gives them a new perspective. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1246972"] Bob's advice was a little undiplomatic IMO but essentially, he's right. a. the LAST PowerPC Mac rolled out in 2006. That was five years ago, or about the expected useful lifetime of a home computer. b. While SOME developers choose to continue to offer PPC-supported versions, their number has been dwindling for YEARS. Adobe is hardly alone on this. c. Flash, being a very badly-written bit of code, requires far more resources than it should. To be blunt, it needs more than that computer can adequately provide. So, should you trash it? Nope! Not if everything else is working well. But what you DO need to do (or she needs to do I should say) is to accept the fact that in computer terms, her computer is OLD and UNDERPOWERED and there are going to be limits to what it can do. Modern Flash is one of those limits, and you will run into others more and more often as time goes on. I know some people think their purchases should last nearly forever, but I always ask them how many cars they've owned and that usually gives them a new perspective. :) [/QUOTE]
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