News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on John Ternus to become Apple CEO. Parent comment

Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO by ProfessorLayton on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:04PM (#47842235)
A major reason Snow Leopard was well received was because of how performant it felt along with the bug fixes. What isn't mentioned anywhere near as much is that it dropped a lot of hardware (PPC). The last G4 Powerbook got about 1.5y of OS support before it was dropped.

iOS 26 is slated to drop a bunch of iPhone models. macOS is dropping all all macs with Intel CPUs.

A Snow Leopard release isn't great news for a lot of people.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO by selcuka on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:46PM (#47842693)
> The last G4 Powerbook got about 1.5y of OS support before it was dropped.

> macOS is dropping all all macs with Intel CPUs.

Those two cases are not really comparable though, are they? The last Intel CPU Mac was the 2019 Mac Pro, which was discontinued in 2023.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO by ProfessorLayton on Monday April 20, 2026 @09:48PM (#47843577)
Aren't they? The last Intel macs were being sold less than 3y ago, and by the time macOS 27 releases they'll be less than 3.5y old.

The broader point is that a "Snow Leopard" release has historically resulted in a lot of hardware being left behind, and many of the devices that could have benefited the most from optimizations were cut off.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO by asimovDev on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @02:13AM (#47845194)
they also used to sell 2018 intel mac minis alongside it for a while as well, didn't they?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:John Ternus to become Apple CEO by selcuka on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @10:05PM (#47857868)
Those were discontinued in 2023, too.

I still think it's unrealistic to expect 8+ years of OS updates for a computer even if you purchased it 5 years after its launch date.

[ Parent | on HN ]