on 19/11/02 11:07, (Mac Canada) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyway... OS X is a great OS, but it's still slower at more things than OS = > 9 > so far. It'll get faster. It's more stable. It deals with memory much bette=
I doubt it'll get much faster. For the most part it's already fast enough on above 500 MHz G3s and 400 MHz G4s, and they're not going to spend resources supporting older Macs except insofar as their support agreements and California laws require them to. They'll drop OS X support for the B&Ws, the Beige G3s and all the G3 iMacs in the not too distant future I imagine (since the only $ they make off those machines is the sale of the OS there's not much incentive to provide support for us older users... especially when a top-of-the-line, nicely decked out G3 tower can be had for less than $1000 CAN). But, that said, OS X is pretty much usable for day-to-day operations. They introduced some strange problems with OS X 10.2.2 but that'll get fixed with 10.2.3 I'm sure. They won't be able to sucker people into paying for another upgrade for at least a year, and in that time they'll have to make sure that things get stabilised (lest they get a bad stability rep for their UNIX-like OS). And, in the past Apple has provided remarkable support levels. If my memory doesn't fail me, Apple was supporting the Mac Plus for around 10 years! The last OS to run on the Plus was something like 7.5.5 and that was released late 96/early 97 while the Plus had first come on the scene in 1986. Of course, people who bought themselves the PowerBook 540 only had three or four years of support (93/94 release date, 97/98 last supported OS date). L8r, Eric. -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.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/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
