Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!kreme.dont-email.me!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lewis Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Mac OS 11 - end of OS for my iMac... Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:47:55 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Miskatonic U Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <171120201240455000%nospam@nospam.invalid> <171120202054065457%nospam@nospam.invalid> <_3StH.657$se1.64@fx27.iad> Reply-To: g.kreme@gmail.don-t-email-me.com Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:47:55 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: kreme.dont-email.me; posting-host="95dd4d2ab06379bceb2866dd54cece70"; logging-data="19426"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+PZZG62rMNmQjPp1MpZfTA" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5oszSYG9zo6uenaf1wgNeZriz28= X-Face: )^b5"R:T7U>9~:PEn3YkzMfW*[b1qKeU.fP9C8~8HpU9}lA&6`bH1z X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Mail-Copies-To: nobody Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:135084 In message Alan Browne wrote: > On 2020-11-20 11:39, Lewis wrote: >> In message <_3StH.657$se1.64@fx27.iad> Alan Browne wrote: >>> I don't understand your obsession with trying (badly) to pick holes in >>> what Apple are doing. Is it because you just wasted $400 on updating >>> your old Mac Pro? >> >> I have had a list of parts for an intended AMD low end machine that I >> was going to stick my old GTX 950 in and use for h.265 encoding via >> NVENC and for maybe using as a spare machine for the occasional wintendo >> game. >> >> That machine parts out at $653 without a video card (sinc I already own >> it). Or, I can spend $46 more and get a mac mini that does everything >> that machine will do and far more. >> >> Hmm.. decisions. I mean, it's a tough one, isn't it? (No, it is not a >> tough one at all). Duh. >> >>> The only losers in all this is the small "hackintosh" community. But >>> they knew this was coming some day. >> >> Even they aren't losers as they were building machines to try to get >> better performance. > Certainly. I meant in the sense that their never ending quest to build > machines that run the latest Mac OS is now in it's last phase. There > will be a "last" x86 Mac OS just as there was a last PowerPC OS X. > 3 years? 5 maybe? Apple was pretty fast to stop support on PowerPC Macs, but even then I think it was 7? Let's see, Tiger came out in Jan 2006 with support for Intel Mac and 10.7 dropped Intel macs in July 2011, so 5 years? I suspect something like that, though I would not be surprised to see a much more pronounced bifurcation in the OS between AS and Intel with the AS machines getting a lot more features and capabilities just because they have processing power to burn. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick to anger.