They take on work that the so-called “official” software developers won’t, or can’t. I mean, everyone is abandoning PowerPC-based Macs, and it’s only a matter of time, but TenFourFox buys you some time, just like WaMCom bought us some time back in the old days… I’ve always thankful for the people behind these projects. You’ve still got do deal with things like older versions of Flash (yuck) and QuickTime. So if you want something done, you do it yourself, and we did. There’s no technical reason they can’t do everything that a MacBook can. Why shouldn’t an iBook be able to look at embarrassing pictures on Facebook, or Twitter about our lunch break? These are our computers, dang it. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from our years of using Macs, it’s that they outlast anything else out there. TenFourFox may be the best option now that Firefox 4 is out and has abandoned the PowerPC architecture. ![]() ![]() They get passed down to folks who aren’t running any heavy apps like Photoshop, InDesign, or Final Cut Pro.Īnd dammit, I want those people to be able to browse the web in a reasonably modern fashion. These machines were the powerhouses of yesteryear at many a creative agency, and a lot of them have big drives, plenty of RAM, and are still running. ![]() I know all the hep cats out there have the latest Intel MacBooks to write their Ruby code on, but you would do well to remember that there are still a lot of useful PowerPC-based PowerMacs out there, being used daily for general purpose computing.
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