Leopard Makes It Official. Say Bye To Mac OS Classic.
The end of a Mac era is upon us. The dawning of the new Golden Age of Mac™ begins. Soon. That would be OS X Leopard.
Meanwhile, with little or no fanfare, Apple quietly put to rest the Mac we all knew and loved. Well, some of us. Mac OS Classic is dead. Long live the Mac.
Apple watchers and Mac users have known this day would come, but it still seemed like a surprise, what with no announcement, or ceremony, or celebration. Mac OS X Classic, the remnants of the Mac OS.... (excerpted).
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kieranajp said:
There is an app out there called SheepShaver which is an OS 9 emulator. You can run this on Intel macs and on Leopard and apparently you can run most Classic apps on it.
I have only used Classic once, on my old mac, and so I’m off to find some Classic apps to test on SheepShaver.
—K
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Harrier said:
As an update, the MacBook Pros currently running are suppose to be able to run “Snow Leopard” . For those users, the graphics architecture is the same as the new Pros just release. Currently Apple has stronger graphics cards that Leopard is designed to take to use all it’s features. Those cards even that advanced. For whatever reason, Apple decided to make and exception for the Nivida 9400M grapghic chip to make it work, but not for the 8600M despite the fact users have been begging for it for years.
In this sense Apple is trying to take advantage of is user ignorance. Users on MacBook Pros still have Laptops screens that match the requirements ad resolution of graphics cards, but there is still no software that takes advantage of the chip architecture to give the all the graphical visuals the graphics chip is providing. For a company that claims it’s trying to cater to professional graphical artists, Film editors, photographers-the entire multi media scene-it’s a pretty serious issue.
With the fact the new pros took a step backwards in going to a glossy screen for 15” Apple is trying to exaggerate the improvement in its laptops by essentially advertising the improvement over a laptop is never even tried to develop the proper software to make it function correctly that cater to professional that need it most.