The Decision for My PowerBook 12": Downgrade to Mac OS X Tiger

Last night I followed Arstechnica's live report for Apple's WWDC 2009 Keynote via Twitter. The event started on 00.00 WIB GMT +7. Right after the event, Apple released a press release regarding the upcoming next updates on Mac OS X 10.6: Snow Leopard. The article confirms that Snow Leopard only support Intel based Macs.

I had hoped that Snow Leopard is going to support PPC based Macs. More than that, with Apple's promise to make Snow Leopard lighter and speedier, I really hope it would have more backward compatibility with older Macs, older than the 1st generation PowerBook 12" 867MHz, the minimum system requirement for Leopard.

But alas, Apple has decided not to support PPC based Macs anymore. Even though I love QuickLook, Stacks, Guest User, and easy network sharing features in Leopard, my PowerBook's performance running Leopard feels much more slower compare to Tiger.

So, this fact justify my decission. I'll downgrade to Tiger this weekend. Backup my applications and documents to my external 80GB Lacie's hard drive, and do a clean Tiger's installation.

So, bye bye QuickLook. Bye bye Stacks. Bye bye Guest User account. Bye bye easy network sharing. I'm gonna miss you all, at least until I can afford a new MacBook (in a near future I hope. Amen).

Apple's WWDC 2009 live news update from IRC and Tweeter

If you would like to get hot news tonight from Apple's WWDC 2009 at San Francisco, you could follow it trough IRC channel or Tweeter. I found Arstechnica links to follow:

IRC: irc://irc.arstechnica.com/wwdc

Tweeter: @arswwdc (just follow arswwdc user from Tweeter on web or your Tweeter's desktop client)

The event will start at California, June 8, 2009, atapproximately at 10:00 a.m PDT. Calculating 14 hours time difference between San Francisco and Jakarta, so it's on June 9, 2009, about 00.00 West Indonesian Time (WIB).