I've been an unabashed Apple fanboy since about two weeks after I inherited my first apple from my parents. My dad, who decided to upgrade his recently purchased G4 MacPro, donated the only slightly older one to a "good cause": obviously me, a terribly needy student. After two weeks of "there are no games for this?!" and "why do I have to hold down this button to right click?" among other exasperated exclamations, things fell into place and I realized that here was a powerful, intuitive operating system on top of high quality hardware. Indeed for several years I had almost zero bad experiences with Apple- this was during the G4's prime of compatibility.
Recently, feeling the sting of only 512mb of RAM, I decided I needed to upgrade in order to facilitate RAW photo processing. My dad, who had recently upgraded again decided that, sure, I could inherit a second computer from him. I greedily (and thankfully) snapped up the machine, and the 23-inch cinema display that he had no further use for (the new machine is an iMac). It worked like a charm.
That is, until I was convinced to download the iPhone SDK. My exploits in upgrading to Leopard were partially documented in a previous post, so I won't go into that. By removing the hard drive from my old machine and inserting it in slot 2 of my new one, I was able to successfully install the new OS.
Then I experienced what to many MacPro G4 owners was probably equally frustrating: the iPhone SDK, Aperture 2.0, Picasa 3- all of these things are not compatible with my machine.
So for now I am still on the upgrade path. I am sure that there are good business reasons for not investing the time and money to make these applications compatible with older hardware, but it is a bit unnerving that a machine still capable of so much is thus handicapped. Luckily Adobe Lightroom works splendidly (30-day free trial FTW), and if all goes well I will drop bills to purchase that as my photo organization/processing "solution". Yet, while I still definitely like OSX over Windows, I think the whole infuriating episode has in the end jaded me a bit.
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The reason they don't work together is the architecture of the processor you have vs the new Intel processors. I'm actually surprised you were able to get it to run on your G4 at all because I guess I thought they made it Intel exclusive, guess not. But the reasons those programs aren't working are most likely for the reason that they aren't designed to work with your G4 proc.
you could always get a mac mini that's faster than your mac pro
I love how you say greedily before thankfully--jared, you are so spoiled :)
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