On 8/30/09 10:02 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > Why? Did you not move from 68K to PowerPC? In a few years your Macs > will be where 68K were long ago, and OS 9 is now: no new updates, > stuff is increasingly breaking, and many now things are simply > unavailable. > Bruce, I do not disagree with the statements of facts you've made here. However, from a personal standpoint, I wish not to be part of the moving machine, the game, to be exact. What is the game? The game that born need, need I did not know I had until an Intel mac came about, such needs. When one considers what macs older than G4s can do now, it's indeed worrying thinking that we're leaving behind now the G4s.
And I know that its purely a business move; Apple would not survive if it had continued supporting OS9. Personally, I think after Tiger there was no need for another OS. Likewise after Windows 2000, maybe XP, no need for anything else. But that's me. I also accept that web apps continue to improve, but to have applications move hardware the way it's doing, one can wonder freely whether it's a good thing for consumers, the environment, etc. That I cannot watch Youtube on this Ti400 because of hardware lag is hardly progress. Whereas much older machines than this would run, at the very basic, a web browser, not the newer ones of course. Having said all this, and more that I could, I recognize the business explanations, fully. This is a personal thing. Yes, I won't mind hanging onto my PowerPCs machines in years to come. I'm not one to swim with the tide. I tend to hang onto a tree, and observe. And what you've read here is what I saw, while looking. And I also saw that the washing machine, dish washer, automobile, atomic bomb, train, Intel macs, airplane, were all sold to the public as time savers, among other features. Yet, time remains the one of the most highly desired component of our lives today, decades after some of these technologies were sold us. When you consider what we used to do without all of the above, you wonder, don't you, where the heck time has gone to. Killing people, for instance, is still time consuming, as is watching Youtube on this Ti. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
