On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 03:37:50 -0700, James Fraser wrote: >This prompts the question: does anyone know of Apple saying publicly that >their *next* OS release (10.4) will (or won't) work on B&W's? > >I know that Dan Knight had mentioned in a previous mail that: > >>Apple has been intentionally ripping support for legacy hardware OUT of OS X. > >I'm just wondering how eager they are to add B&W's to the list of machines >that won't run their latest OS without a hack (if at all).
If Apple decided to simply prevent installation on G3s then they'd block owners of G3 iBooks that are only a couple of years old, which wouldn't look too good, so it would have to be a block specific to B&Ws. I suppose they could write the installer so that it stopped if it saw an ADB port :-) My B&W is still on OS9 at the moment (plus an unused OS X 10.1.5 partition) - I've stuck with this for running older software and using my Voodoo 3 card, while my iBook runs Panther. The future of "Blue" hangs in the balance until Tiger comes out, at which point I'll have to decide whether there's any point upgrading it to run Apple's latest and greatest, keep it going as an OS9 workstation or relegate it to server duty running OS9 or 10.1.5. Decisions...decisions... Neil -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> 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-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
