How long till Apple drops Leopard?

With Snow leopard coming out sometime this year a huge change will happen. Snow Leopard will bring the down the final curtain on all of the stead fast PowerPC users. Granted Apple users are now legendary for holding onto their machines for what seems like an eternity to PC users. But is this really a bad move for Apple? To be fair they have treated their computer line with much more thought on longevity then their ipod line.

Granted it's not like the Power PC was just fazed out just recently the line is was finished almost three plus years ago. though the goes back to almost 2000, Also they only left that line of computing because they where at the time being out done by Intel. Now AMD are big dogs on top now, being why Apple recently did a complete laptop refresh. Plus you are still buying the only computers on the market that could run both Windows and Mac OSX. On top of that there are a couple ways to run Windows, either the free way with boot camp or you can with parallels or VM fusion you can run Windows in a window while you have mac OSX up and running. The only thing being I would not game with that set-up. Being as you are running two OSs at once.

I have heard from an anonymous person about how well Snow leopard is coming along, things like how fast it runs certain photo program and that the OS as a whole has been slimmed down a decent amount. Apple is also pushing for a fifteen minute install this time around. Plus on top of that with stability higher than even what Leopard is now out of the box for Snow Leopard is sounding very hopeful f or Apple to make an even bigger splash in an ever shrinking Windows market. So even though you may be forced to pick up a new machine you should be far from disappointed about the boost you will be getting.. Plus with the fact that AMD chose Apple to debut it's new line of processors you will jump back to the bleeding edge of technology for a reasonable price for what you get. A added bonus to boot is you will also have the greenest computer in the world currently. Now with the ability to choose matte on the 17" screen photographers are back in business.

So even though Snow leopard will force a few of us to upgrade the overall benefit to it'll bring to advancing computing in general will be worth a few casualties in the end Even this blogger will feel some shrapnel for a while at least till he comes up with some cash to save up for a new MacBook Pro. �