The CenterStage Project, one of the first, and most promising HTPC projects for the Macintosh is considering dropping Tiger (10.4) support once they get their hands on Leopards developer tools. The move is a logical, with Leopard including all new core-animation, core-data, and other tools. It would be foolish for them to ignore these new enhancements that would better their application.

EntertainMac is always a supporter of using the latest and greatest technologies behind. The switch should speed up development of the application, to where we could see a final product sooner then later. But we also believe that this will cut out a large portion of the early MacHTPC users out there. Those with G4's slower then 867MHz, and with less than 512mb of RAM will be immediately be dropped. Centerstage was nice, as it wasn't restrictive on which systems you could use it on.

Whats your opinion? The project has posted the question on their message boards and are looking for your input.