You do not need to update yours everytime they update theirs.
(unless you really need a translucent 3D mouse pointer)
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While one does not need to upgrade every 6 months, PowerPCs are a bit on the antique side.

It’s only a rumor for now, but it would be in keeping with the way Apple does things. I feel your pain, concrete. And I have a recommendation for you: check out the refurbished white iMacs at the online Apple store! I’m quite happy with mine. See this older thread.

Meh. I’m on intel and still don’t use 10.5.

I’m about to send a label to Italy to be printed. It’s new one in a series, and I wasn’t involved with it last year. The client says it was sent in Freehand format, and I’m arguing for Illustrator. I know I’m repeating myself here, but the only reason I still have a PPC is my old friend Freehand, that raises its ugly head every now and then, it refuses to die. Some of us are forced to use antique ;^)

@mili: The more I use Illustrator CS3 the more I wish Adobe would have just killed Illustrator and gone with Freehand.

mili: Freehand runs on Intel Macs. At least it does on my iBook.

I’m a hold out too. Still use Freehand. Hoping Inkscape or something else will come to save me before having to switch to Illustrator.

To be fair, Adobe didn’t really kill Freehand...it had been gangrenous for a while at Macromedia.

Inkscape is starting to look really good–especially that nifty calligraphy tool. If I could select BCP handles and manipulate them with the keyboard it would replace Illustrator for all my logo work.

I’m using a PowerPC G5 tower and have still not upgraded to Leopard.

Unless Apple adds support for complex opentype fonts then its a no go for for me.

Mikey :-)