Has it really increased that much? (Or are our computers really that old?) But this development has us pondering the speed of obsolescence. Most times when folks talk about the speed of computers, it's Moore's law – the theory that processor speeds double every two years. And even if we could, like many reading this at work, we'd still need our IT department's approval – and don't even get us started on that.) Not even your faithful Horizons team can download Chrome here in the office. Oh, and those who've kept an older PowerPC-based Mac alive by upgrading to a newer OS? You're doomed to dullness, too – no Chrome for you. What's that mean? Unless you upgraded your Mac's operating system in the last two years, you're stuck Chrome-less. For Macs, Chrome requires Mac OS 10.5 or newer – Leopard and Snow Leopard for the animal types among us. When this tech blogger saw the announcement, that the long-awaited, really-official-this-time Google Chrome had finally been released for Mac and Linux after living in the realm of PC-only for more than a year, there was one jubilant moment of excitement – and then a crush of doom.Ĭhrome, the speedy, secure, lightweight browser had finally come to the Monitor office's operating system of choice.īut not so fast.
