End
of An Era
I'm going to be saying
goodbye to old friend this weekend... OSX
10.5.8, Apple's operating system
circa 2007. I know it sounds odd to still employ such
an antediluvian system but I never upgraded
to newer OS's for two
reasons:
(1) I didn't see the need to. All my software worked
just fine, thank you very much.
(2) My 2004 model G5 tower just refused to die. The
thing was built like a brick shithouse but the power
supply, the heart of this great beast, finally gave
out about a month ago. And these G5 PowerPCs topped
out at 10.5.8. No 10.6+ for them.
Since then I've been using a backup G5 but the writing
was on the wall so, during the past few weeks, I've
been searching the 'net, assembling the new
fleet;
a pair
of iron-clad Mac Pros. They are, of course, both used
units but they're in excellent shape. (I needed a second
unit
just
in case another electrical crisis
ensues.)
Small digression: I also felt rather smug on the security
front and literally no coder in his right mind is
wasting time writing hacks for a PowerPC computer.
These systems are easily twenty times more powerful
than the old G5, whose 2.7ghz dual-processor in its
day was second only to the 2.5ghz quad-cores (which,
oddly enough,
still fetch a pretty penny on eBay) so the extra horsepower
will be fun to have on hand. However, there's bound
to be software glitches so here's
hoping for the best.
=Lefty=
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