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I'm going to make a prediction here. If I'm wrong, feel free to heap scorn and derision upon my head when the time comes.
Panther will support only Macs that were originally equipped with at least one USB port.
That means Panther will support:
• all models of iMac, including both G3s and G4s
• all iBooks
• all eMacs
• all other Macs that originally came with a G4 processor, including G4 Towers, Cubes and G4 PowerBooks
• B&W G3 towers
• G3 PowerBooks with built-in USB (Lombard and up)
Out in the cold will be:
• all pre-Lombard G3 PowerBooks
• all beige G3s
• all earlier Macs with G3 or G4 upgrades
I guess time will tell, and ingenious people may well contrive patches and workarounds to get older Macs to boot in Panther, but the above is, in my opinion, the line in the sand that Apple will draw for official support.
Cheers :-> Bill
Panther will support only Macs that were originally equipped with at least one USB port.
That means Panther will support:
• all models of iMac, including both G3s and G4s
• all iBooks
• all eMacs
• all other Macs that originally came with a G4 processor, including G4 Towers, Cubes and G4 PowerBooks
• B&W G3 towers
• G3 PowerBooks with built-in USB (Lombard and up)
Out in the cold will be:
• all pre-Lombard G3 PowerBooks
• all beige G3s
• all earlier Macs with G3 or G4 upgrades
I guess time will tell, and ingenious people may well contrive patches and workarounds to get older Macs to boot in Panther, but the above is, in my opinion, the line in the sand that Apple will draw for official support.
Cheers :-> Bill