Estimating a Mac's lifespan

Yes, Macrumors has done the same thing, but this new website is much prettier.

Well, it's french, but consomac.fr has been doing this for ages, and has usually been pretty accurrate - thanks to this site, I've postponed my Mac Book Pro purchase until sept 2006 and got a Core2Duo for the price of a CoreDuo !

That is shelf-life span. What about a real life span estimate? Would Leopard support G3 macs, many of which still being very useful and relyable computers?

Pity they haven't even verified their data:

The Mac Pro was not released July 8th, 2006 as they claim, but on August 7th, 2006.

Messing up US-style and rest-of-the-world-style dates can be a problem.

Heh - thanks for the advice Brady :)

When I've found an article that pertains directly to a model, I'll link it. If you click on the 5th gen ipod at the bottom of the homepage, there's a link to an Ars article.

I could always pull an RSS feed with some filters though. I only actually finished the site about 5 days ago, so there's still a lot of scope for change and development.

I like MacRumors as much as the next, but you have to admit it's almost sinfully ugly to look at - Mactactic atleast is more appealing a read, and that's worth a lot from print to web reading... especially in a mac world. About all that macrumors has is, well, linking to rumors - Mactactic could do that by publishing the recent RSS feeds of every major news site right under the device if they wanted too (hint):)

I've posted about macrumours vs mactactic on the blog at mactactic:

http://mactactic.com/blog/2007/feb/16/mactactic-vs-macrumors/

You're welcome:) Tom Hesser at http://maccentricsolutions.com/ gave me the tip off first!

Hasn't MacRumors been doing that forever now?

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/