[mac4theblind] Apple sunsets a few 64-bit Macs with Mountain Lion, video drivers likely the culprit
- From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:19:36 -0400
== Apple sunsets a few 64-bit Macs with Mountain Lion, video drivers likely the
culprit ==
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/11/apple-sunsets-a-few-64-bit-macs-with-mountain-lion/
(from Engadget)
Apple is well-known for wanting a close spread in hardware requirements with OS
X upgrades, having dropped PowerPC like a hot potato when Snow Leopard arrived
just three years after the Intel switch. Whether or not you're a fan of that
policy, it's certainly carrying forward with Mountain Lion. When the
newly-finished OS hits the Mac App Store, it will rule out the very first wave
of 64-bit Macs: certain MacBook Pros, Mac Pros and other early systems will be
denied a taste of 10.8. Some sleuthing from Ars Technica suggests that it's a
matter of graphics drivers rather than capriciousness on Apple's part, as the
Macs excluded from the mix are using 32-bit drivers that won't play nicely with
Mountain Lion's 64-bit Utopia short of a wide-scale conversion effort. It's
little consolation to those who dropped a pretty penny on certain Macs just a
few years ago. That said, Apple is still going the extra mile to support some
systems -- if you're reading this on an original aluminum iMac, you're sitting
pretty.Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, SoftwareApple sunsets a few 64-bit Macs
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