On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:18:57PM -0600, Hamlin Krewson wrote: : : On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 03:00 PM, Jacob Saariaho wrote: : : >Does anybody know anything about this class action lawsuit against : >Apple? I'm not too good at legalese, so I'm hoping someone familiar : >with the case can break it down for me. Apparently anyone owning a G3 : >PowerBook (Kanga through Lombard, I think) is eligible to participate. : >Which is why I'm surprised I haven't seen it mentioned on this board : >yet. Did I miss something? : : Actually, it covers the Wallstreet, PDQ and Lombard. Doesn't cover the : Kanga. I'm rather surprised it covers the Lombard. I love OS X on my : Lombard, works great. Only thing I've noticed it not work with is the : s-video port. I imagine it works with the vga port, but I'm not sure.
It covers Lombard because OS X didn't fully support the hardware. So no support for the S-video port, no DVD playback regardless of whether it worked in OS 9 or not, no hardware graphics acceleration in the video drivers, and other things. Class action lawsuits sometimes suck, but sometimes it's the only way to reign in company responsibility and make them do what they say. -- Eugene Lee eugene at anime dot net -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
