software upgrade for power mac g5 2005 version 10.5.8

I hope iWork 07 proves to be a huge improvement. They’ve paid too much attention IMO to the lower margin Mac mini, and alienated the rest of its clientele looking for the middle ground. The lack of one leaves a huge price gap in such a system between the MacPro and the iMac. The space saved on the “desktop” profile is lost with having to add enclosures for a better DVD-burner and a two-drive firewire enclosure.Īpple should introduce such a system: expandable and upgradable, single CPU in a desktop case.

I regret in a way buying the iMac because it lacks upgradability and expandability internally. I am an owner of an iMac G5 now for 2 years and am saving for a replacement Mac. 😉 (But also more reliable than the Intel MacBooks my friends have purchased. It’s been very reliable, blowing away the two Dell notebooks I owned (both of which died) during the same time period. But I’m concerned about the level of testing that’s gone into these products.Īny word on the “super-secret features” that Jobs spoke of at the WWDC a few months ago? If they’re compelling enough I’ll go ahead and trade up to an Intel Mac for now, I’ve been content with my 4-year old trusty PowerBook G4. Then agan, maybe they are just that good (though iTunes 7 shows otherwise).Ĭan I assume there was at least a private beta of some sort? I do know that Apple did do their usual developer’s preview so at least third party devs could report any bugs that they found. I get the feeling that Apple believes its own press clippings that their developers are God’s gift to programming, and therefore require no public betas.

The notion of development “wrapping up faster than many at Apple even anticipated” with no public beta is worrisome. Regarding 10.5, iLife ’07, and iWork ’07, was there a public beta of these? iTunes 7 was released in a very buggy state (requiring iTunes 7.01 to be released within the first week, and it’s still buggy), partly because there was no public beta. (I don’t plan on updating my OSX version until getting a new Mac altogether, making the jump to intel.) I’m still on Panther (10.3), so I won’t be seeing any new bug fixes or security updates. Sadly, this will also mark the end of support for OSX 10.3, if Apple continues their history of supporting only the two most recent 0.1 OSX releases at any given time.

Software upgrade for power mac g5 2005 version 10.5.8