Welcome back to our homebrew series about the future ForkLift 2.0. Admittedly, there has been a short hiatus in the series, I will be discussing this later on, but first things first:
ForkLift 2.0 will be 64-bit, and Snow Leopard only.
I know from experience that announcements of this sort often fail to provoke the merry cries we normally expect.
So, just say it out loud a couple of times and let the warmth of the promise of a bright future wash over you. Because I know some questions inevitably pop up: What’s gonna happen to PPC users? Screw that, what’s gonna happen to Leopard users?
Well, first, stay calm, there’s no immediate threat. This is an early warning, ForkLift 2.0 is still a good way away. In fact, we don’t expect a beta before first quarter of 2010.
Second, we’ve had this same dilemma when moving from Tiger to Leopard, and speaking from experience, that all came out well in the end. Most people simply switched to Leopard sooner or later (rather sooner), and the few people who still use ForkLift 1.2 to this day seem pretty happy with the software they have. Also, let’s face it, the last PPC models were sold in 2006, about the time BinaryNights started out.