On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 01:38 AM, Richard Brauer wrote: > I guess the big question is: why are you interested in installing OS X > at all? > Unless you have some compelling need to upgrade (e.g. some software > only works under X, etc.) my feeling is that you'll actually be > significantly happier under 9. > Unless you have a compelling need, stick with OS 9. > I think you'll find yourself happier in the short run.
Software bundled with printers & scanners may not be available for OSX (only drivers released). In my case I have an Epson PM-950C and it has a special tray slot for printing on CD-R/RW, but the software to print on the CDs that came bundled with the printer is OS9 and not released [yet?] by Epson for OSX. Only the driver and some other utilities are available for OSX. Worse, the driver for OS9 is Japanese and for some reason the characters on the Print dialog box shows up as unreadable Greek/Latin in OS9-English (even though I have multi language in OS9 installed and my other Japanese version applications such as Office98J display the Japanese characters with no problem). Major :-( I also have a Canon N1240U scanner that came bundled with lots of software for OS9... and recently only the driver for OSX was released... and get this... the driver only works with Photoshop or Elements. Another :-( - Les -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/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/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
