On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Simon Royal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been reading some posts over the past few weeks with amazement. I > thought I was a minority with my love of old Macs. >
Many of us use OS X on old Macs. not exactly a violation of the EULA but there was much the same resistance on these lists to that idea in the old days as running OS X on PCs now. Why would we want to? Economics plain and simple initially. Our old Macs are still great and usable obviously. But how many on Low End Mac can afford the Apple options when new hardware is needed for a task. To go beyond what is possible for an older Mac. I know there are some who will install Leopard on a Lisa just to show it can happen. But I am talking about doinf real work. Yet we are still tied to the OS that we love. i know many here will have eschewed the discussion of Apple OS on PC hardware. But will a Mini Or iMac fulfill your business or career needs for expandability and upgradability? If I could up the bus speed of my beloved 9600 and have Intel off the shelf chips in it as a Mac Pro does this would not be an issue for me. Forgive my opinion here but this issue will eventually effect all Mac users. Even those maintianing vintage machines as we will need to keep file transferability alive. Our old Macs will lose some usefulness if they cannot somehow share info with the next generations of all platforms. We are long beyond the point where one doing serious work can hope to communicate while being blind to other platforms. Mac OS is a valuable vivacious tool for that but how long will older Macs keep up. Even G5s are long in tooth now. The day of Motorola is over. At least for new Apple hardware. Adrian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
