JT writes, <Well, for starters, this old legacy diehard switched cold turkey in December of 2006.
I had thought about it for several years and... IF I had known that you could put legacy applications in the dock, I would have made the switch much sooner. I still run classic on occasion but have not booted with classic for at least two years and don't miss anything about doing so.> Wow, cold turkey huh?! Well, when I first got my G4 my original intention was to run in straight-up 9 for awhile and THEN try OS X, but things didn't go according to plan, and I spent my first several days "totally stuck" in the Tiger 10.4.7 it came with. Although, while waiting for the G4 to actually arrive, since I knew it would have Tiger ON it, I had been reading that conversion book about going from 9 to X, so I knew I could put my legacy apps in the Dock (in addition to being able to set System Prefs to boot Classic on startup). While that forced early immersion in Tiger did turn me on to the good things about OS X, I was still extremely worried I might need to actually boot in 9 at SOME point (I turned out to be almost right, although it's only for one application, and only occasionally)...so I doubt I could've done cold turkey! LOL It also took me a year to realize, once my G4 gave me the finger on booting in "real 9" ever again (was it trying to tell me something? LOL) that no, I DON'T need to boot in 9 even for that one circumstance -- that putting Panther on that one HD would do the trick just as well! Although I did still choose to include the OS 9 drivers in the Panther install last week (and put an OS 9 system folder on that HD), I didn't actually take the time to go to Classic in the System Prefs or try booting Classic on it. I'm up on Tiger now, Classic is off (and no longer set to boot on startup). Much to my surprise, I did find out I needed to briefly run GUID Checker today...and I didn't mind waiting for Classic to boot up before GUID Checker would open! Wow......let's hear from the rest of you stubborn diehards and slowpokes! I may have taken the longest to even TRY OS X, but I know there were a few others who were resistant. Dorayme, you were one of them IIRC? :-) ~Yersinia. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
