The same reason they feel it's ok to drop iOS 6 from iPad 1, iPhone, iPhone 3G and many iPod touches.
again either u are missing the point or you are daning around the table. It has nothing to do with iOS6 and smartphones/tablets, these are mere gizmos and gadgets; MacPro is a professional and expensive machine. I own a $100 iphone 4, and I am not pissed at apple I don't have Siri, I don't give a cent about Siri.
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So, for all of those that have given me grief saying Apple never claimed the Mac Pro to be a "64-Bit Machine" but that it could just run 64-Bit Applications...
Let me direct you to where you can hear it directly from Apples mouth at the WWDC 2006 Keynote when they introduced the machine.
Pay particular attention to the 9:00 - 10:00 minute section of video.....
Hummm.... What did he call it? A What ... A 64-Bit what!?!?
Between this video, the magazine advertisements Apple ran at the time and the archived webpages from Apple's website in 2006..... well they have a lot of explaining to do.
Here is the link to the keynote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l72MsGZQA8Q
I can not wait to hear how you all try to explain this one away.
BINGO, good job, the video hits the nail in da head. Lucky it was not the deceased Steve Jobs who uttered the magic word 64 bit, or else how can we bring him as a witness. This is fantastic lawyer research and investigation... to all the nah nah nah appleboys here, on your face.
Case closed in favor of all of us the 1,1 owners. Apple: you better settle, you will settle. See you in court.
And I join your remark: if 1,1 can be hacked into launching ML, Apple should be able to implement something that looks like the hack into ML, after all, it's just code zeroes and ones. And like you, I want a legit ML with appropriate code, not some instable hack code that will prevent me from future updates or will time me to god knows what in the future.
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It has a lot to do with internet use, productivity, software use, etc. Thus I'm locked out of future updates of Photoshop, Word, VueScan, iMovie, etc.
The 32 bit issue can be solved through a firmware update. There is no reason at all why the same 64 bit Intel processors can't run 10.8. Video drivers not all that much of an issue either, with an update to the GPU. Something faster and more powerful can be flashed for a an earlier Mac Pro.
But Apple likes to sell lots of hardware
expensive hardware. So your investment becomes unusable in about 5 years time. My last Mac I got 9 years out of it. Keeps getting shorter from where I stand, and I'm paying more to upgrade in a shorter amount of time. Meanwhile people with Windows machines are getting more out of their older computers without spending a bundle.
Exactly, I agree with you 100%. I own a 10 year old expensive $2500 Dell, it never let me down, still kicking, with the latest Win 7, latest Office etc. When I bought $3000 Mac Pro, first I was told it's a 64 bit machine, so I thought this one will last even longer, at least 10 years, look where we are now apple tells me it's obsolete, come and buy a new MacPro, if I do, 4 years from now, Apple will again tell me obsolete....
Someone needs to straighten it up with Apple once and for all.
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He said the Xeon processor was 64 bits.
The argument here is still is that nowhere does apple say that your MP isn't compatible with ML because of the 64 bit reason. If you can find that, then you might have something
here is something I found online, read below. I am not a mac geek, but I understand there is a difference between 64bit and EFI64.
*There are two things that prevent 10.8 from installing on a MacPro 1,1. The first is the lack of EFI64. Mountain Lion as has no support for 32bit kernel and extensions so it will not boot. This is true of many early Intel macs
The other thing is that checks are made by the installer; against a supported machines list. If your mac isnt on the list, it refuses to install...*
But the video from you tube shows clearly that, as far as the 64bit issue, Apple was deceiving and misleading the naive and gullible us, who run in flocks to get the first MacPro....
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So you know what machine I'm currently reading and replying to this thread on? A nearly 10 year old iBook g4. Still totally functional as advertised, still the same machine i paid $1500 for. And it only runs 10.5.8 Leopard. Gee, since leopard ran on intel machines too, then snow leopard should run on my ancient PPC platform, right?
****** off, and at least admit that you're pissed off because the company did exactly what you should have expected them to do if you were a reasonably intelligent human being.
PS: Creating the amoulay and rendevouspoo accounts to fake supporters doesn't make you more credible or gain you any sympathy.
amoulay ID, which is mine, has nothing to do with Silvertard, which belongs to Silvertard, two different individuals, all you have to to distinguish us is read carefully, if you compare, you can see our styles are different, that if you can read at all...
But Silver and are teaming us real hard to bring down your mamma apple soon, pretty pretty soon. With the video from youtube, I can assure you that the thief has been caught with the hand in the victim's pocket
