Fortunately, I have one of the last and greatest G4s. It's about 8
years old now - I think. So my only concern is whether the drives
will continue to work forever. (smile) I tried to boot up my SE30 the
other day and, probably because I had forgotten to keep it plugged in
so that the battery didn't peter out, it just sat there with a blurry
screen and nothing else. Some of the external hard drives I used with
it are still alive, so all is not lost. Just my ability to run System 8.
Thanks for you empathy,
Joe Wilkins
On May 18, 2007, at 10:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joe,
I found the transparency annoying as well.
But Apple has toned it down. I'm running 10.4.9 and all of my
windows are
appropriately solid.
I liked OS 7 and was disappointed when the initial OS 8 lacked some
of the OS
7 features. The original OS 9 did not work as well as OS 8.6
(especially the
networking) but it got better. The initial OS X did not have a lot
of the
things we took for granted in OS 9 (labels, springloaded folders,
etc.), for that
matter the initial version could not even print!
At this point OS X does everything for me that OS 9 did - and a lot
more.
OS 9 is dead. It will never run better. It will never run faster.
It will be
harder and harder to find computers that run it at all. Developers
have less
and less incentive to develop for it.
Meanwhile OS X gets better with each version. It runs faster
because it runs
on new computers with faster CPUs today. And tomorrow it will be
running on
even faster CPUs. It is the future.
Maybe, someday, I'll even learn to like the dock.
Paul Looney
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