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How much can I get for my G5?
That makes no sense; then I might as well use a different system that boots OS 9 and a KVM or something rather than boot into a lesser emulation. The whole point of Classic is not necessarily compatibility, though it is more compatible than SheepShaver, but that I can use Classic apps and my regular apps at the same time. Rebooting just to jump in and out of my favourite, wickedly fast audio editor is silly. Leopard doesn't have it, so it doesn't let me. Of any group out there, I'd understand this one to understand that at least. >
The other reason I don't use Leopard is purely the fact I think it looks worse. I really don't like the visual changes Apple made; getting rid of the pinstripes was a good thing, but Tiger has that, and I personally don't like the really deep greys and more garish control colours.
Mike, Safari 4 has probably an opcode-type JIT (it's been a long time since I looked at WebKit in detail) but I don't think it goes lower level than that right now. It's inevitable however. I don't know what to tell you about Mozilla's 10.5 support, you're asking me to justify the actions of an organization that I sometimes don't understand.
(OTOH, I can see their being unwilling to not support an OS that Apple themselves now doesn't support other than probably a couple more odd iTunes, QT or Safari updates.)
Well, if and when tiger loses modern browser support you still might want to get on the entire internet. A kvm is a great idea if you have the space for another machine and if so go right ahead.
Camino 2.0 just came out - still supports Tiger and PPC. Yay for now, I guess.
SeaMonkey 2.0 was also released, and the Mac version is just gorgeous! Also runs quite fast, but it seems that 10.4 is the minimal OS X supported.
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/
Grrr. I still use 10.3.9
Or I roll my own browser. Which, of course, I have *never* done before.
Any Mac that can run Panther can run Tiger, that's the thing. Even a Power Macintosh 7500 with a G3 card can run Tiger.
Tiger may be the most compatible OS Apple has ever released. 1995-1997 (with a CPU upgrade) and 1997-2007 (stock CPU).
It's sort of a special version of OS X. It still runs Classic Environment, it runs on so many different Macs, it still has AppleTalk printers.
Leopard is also quite compatible too. I've never heard of it running on a beige Mac but it can run on a Blue G3 with a G4 upgrade and a video card upgrade. So that gives you 1999 (with CPU upgrade) and 2000-2009 with non upgradable G3 Macs excluded. You don't even have to use any hacks at all except for one Open Firmware change if your CPU is less than 867 MHz.
Compare these to Snow Leopard, which runs on 2006 and up. That's why it's such a a harsh cutoff in comparison.
...but upgrading would require pulling money out of my MacBook savings!