{"id":1599,"date":"2007-10-01T13:42:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T16:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2192"},"modified":"2010-05-08T17:25:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T20:25:33","slug":"wow-that-was-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/01\/wow-that-was-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow, that was fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slightly <a href=\"\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1485#1485\">over two years ago<\/a>, shortly after the Intel switch announcement, I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the current installed base is something over 30 million PowerPC Macs (or even more, depending on your sources). By the end of 2007, Intel Macs will be perhaps 15% of that. It will take at least 5 years, probably more, for Intel Macs to surpass the PowerPC Mac installed base.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to see that Mac sales were so good that this milestone &#8211; equal number of PowerPC and Intel Macs &#8211; will apparently be reached <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.business2.com\/apple\/2007\/10\/mac-installed-b.html\">before the end of 2007<\/a>. At that time, some people feared developers would start releasing Intel-only versions of their software soon; as far as I know, except for natural exceptions like Parallels and VMWare, this hasn&#8217;t happened.<\/p>\n<p>And, while recent news indicates that the upcoming Leopard&#8217;s hardware requirements have been upped a little, most recent G4s and all G5s will still run it well. Older G4s will, I suppose, be more disqualified by video speed restrictions than by CPU speed as such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slightly over two years ago, shortly after the Intel switch announcement, I wrote: &#8230;the current installed base is something over 30 million PowerPC Macs (or even more, depending on your sources). By the end of 2007, Intel Macs will be perhaps 15% of that. It will take at least 5 years, probably more, for Intel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[17,23],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-hardware","tag-cpu","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-pN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}