Mac OS X Leopard release to set off wave of hardware upgrades
By Jason D. O'Grady & David Morgenstern
October 15th, 2007

The buzz is building over what Mac OS 10.5 Leopard will mean to Mac users and Apple’s bottom line, in advance of the update’s expected release later this month and the company’s quarterly conference call next Monday, respectively.

Unlike the fizzle that PC users showed for the launch of Windows Vista, the Mac faithful will be out in force, standing in line to be the first on the block to run the new software. Some sites expect the release on Friday, Oct. 26, although a Halloween introduction might be more fun. Or perhaps Mac users will combine the events and dress in their costumes over the weekend.

However, will Apple execs during next week’s analyst call note the many PowerPC-based Macs that are sure candidates for Intel replacements over the next year? At a recent BMUGWest Mac user group meeting I attended in San Francisco, many users there are still running Power Macs and PowerBooks. Some said they are mulling upgrades.

Half the machines that I run in my home office are G4 based. No doubt, I will upgrade some of them this year. Still, many Mac users will first buy the software update. It’s just a biennial tradition of the Mac community. And Leopard will run just fine on these PowerPC machines.

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Same thing as Vista, it runs fine on the old hardware, but it runs a lot better if you upgrade the system that it's running on, but there isn't any word about that for mac and all it's GUI bloat...