Re:lesser mode for lesser machines (Score 1)

Did you actually read what you typed before you posted it? So you want them to release a version of 10.5 that can detect a "Lesser Machine" as you call it. Then it loads but it disables anything that might require a "Greater Machine" as I'll call it for comparison. Now they have to support multiple code bases within the same code. The developers have to write their apps to allow for both cases and if you honestly think that they could do this by "adding a few more lines of code" as you put it, they you have no clue what goes into writing code. Sure in days of old they did quite a bit with 64k or less, hell my first taste of computing was was a TRS-80 which came with 4k. But let's not forget that the UI at that time was an ASCII interface and not graphical such as today's. The processor of that particular machine ran at a whopping 4Mhz and not today's GHz levels and the pipeline was a damn site shorter all of which meant that keeping the data you needed handy was not near as difficult, not to mention the fact that waiting a minute or two for a bubble sort to run was more than acceptable. I'm not saying that there aren't sloppy programers today or that they don't write less than streamlined code because there is so much power to spare today, but to think that they could just drop a few lines of code in and support anything you'd like them to well, pass me whatever you're smoking cause I've not had a buzz like that in ages. I've got a better idea how about I'll just do a res hack on tiger so it displays 10.5 and you'll have pretty much what you want, Lesser hardware compatability with the new wizz bang features disabled and still have it show 10.5 Once you get Apple to meet this request for you, how about having a talk with MS and have them do the same thing with Vista.