Re: Apple and its OS X sucks

[Tim Gochnour]

On May 30, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Thomas Baker wrote:
At 5:59 AM -0600 5/30/2004, Tim Gochnour wrote:
  If you'd been paying attention for the last two
years, you would know that you can't just stick crap in a machine
before installing OS X and expect it to install.  Like trying to put
Toyota parts in a Cadillac engine and expecting it to run.....,

You need better ram for OS X (like my wife's car needs 93 octane gas) 
naturally and I have over a gig in the 9600.  USB cards can be fine 
and video cards as well.  Everyone knows that Mac Radeon cards are 
fully compatible.


So, Adaptec, Radeon, etc. make "crap?"
Who said that?
ClubMac sells inferior/defective
memory?
Nobody said 'defective.'  But there ARE different 'speeds.'
 Pioneer makes crummy drives?
I have a Panasonic DVD drive in my 9600.....
 There's no junk in or attached to this
G-4. When a relative loaned me her iMac OS-X (10.1) software install 
disk
months ago it installed X on my external hard drive no problem (the 
drive
died later of unnatural causes) and it could boot from that drive if I
wanted. Nothing on this G-4 was any different then than it is now.
A good friend of mine has had OSX on his first gen G4 since it was in 
beta form....  Runs GREAT.
 I didn't
much care for X then, but lately I wanted to try newer versions of 
iMovie
and it requires it. The 10.2 installer is obviously another step 
backward.
LOL!!!!
If you got OS X to run on some old box, good for you. You don't know 
how
lucky you are.
It was EASY and runs GREAT.  My son plays first person shooter online 
games on it with no crashes.
Apple itself probably made better hardware back then. I was
rather disgusted with the cheap, minimal, generic little manual that 
came
with this G-4 (I remember the model-specific thick, slick, heavy, high
quality publications, practically books, that came with the old Macs), 
and
it probably indicates the quality of the whole package. OS-X is another
disappointment. Having to compete with Microsoft to survive
LOL again!   :))  Microsloth is no competition.  Merely a bad carbon 
copy following long after the Mac OS....

Seriously, Tom.  It sounds like you are having a bad day.  It was hard 
for me to leave OS 9 (I didn't do it until 10.2 came out) thinking that 
there was no software for it.  The abundance and stability I am finding 
is amazing.  Take a deep breath, remove any hardware that didn't come 
stock in the G4, install OS X, and reinstall your hardware.  It's that 
simple.....

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Tim
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