Well, Apple beat me. I gave up the fight.

[lombard]

Well, I've finally given up waiting for Apple to release decent drivers for my ATI Rage Pro and DVD decoding in my Lombard Powerbook. I've been hoping for almost a year now that I'd get to keep using my trusty old book with OS X. Finally got sick of it. Played right in to Apple's hands too. Just ordered a new iBook with DVD. Couldn't pass up the $100 rebate and 6 months interest free financing.

Looks like my lombard will be paying a visit to eBay right after Christmas. Hoping to get close to $1000 for the whole system. 333MHz, 192 MB RAM, 10 GB HD, DVD, WaveLAN Silver card, FireWire-2-Go card, CF adapter, SuperDisk media bay drive. We'll see how I make out. I'd like to get it up before christmas, but with all my travelling, it wouldn't be possible.

Congrats Apple, you ticked me off enough to get me to buy a new machine. You must be so proud.

[edX]

now, are you really going to be unhappy because you had to get a new one? are you really gong to miss your old one while doing all the things you wanted to be doing all along. Selling computers is apple's business. if we don't want/need new ones every so often they wouldn't be here anymore. would you rather they stopped making bigger, better, faster models and just stuck with keeping your old ones working? I think apple does a pretty good job of supporting their hardware for a good 4-5 years when possible, especially with popular sellers. at least the give you latest operating system with almost every model whenever you upgrade hardware. whereas you could go out and buy a better pc and still only be running windows 98. Are you still wearing all the same clothes you bought in 1990? I hope not.

[BlingBling 3k12]

why would you want to keep the old one with all the complications when you could have a shiny new one with no problems with much better features? that's what astounds me sometimes... people keep their old systems when new and extremely powerful new ones are available at a good price... am i just not getting something

[scope]

I'll give ya $200 for the old one! Right now! $200! You can keep your WaveLAN Silver card, FireWire-2-Go card, CF adapter, and SuperDisk media bay drive. $200.....

[AdmiralAK]

YOu dont get it do you ?
If the computer works well why oh why replace it ? Why spend the dough to do that ? There is absolutelly no reason, and this guy SHOULD be pis'd off cause the lobard is a pretty good machine which apparently worked out well. I would be seriously pis'd to if apple told me that I could not use my G3 B&W (which I cant 100% with OS X so I am using OS 9 at home most of the time )


Admiral

[scruffy]

It's unfortunate that Apple is ditching support for computers that really aren't even particularly old. And it's especially a shame to have to ditch a Lombard - those were really nice laptops.

But I suppose Apple's a small company as giant computer corporations go, and they have to pick and choose what they get done... Still annoying, I know - I am getting ridiculously close to having enough no-longer-supported hardware to put together a reasonable PC - just need a case, motherboard and CPU, pretty much.

[Jorace]

Well I think that if you bought a BW or Lombardand where happy with them with OS9 then you dont have a right to complain now. They still work Just as well if not better than the day you forked out the money for them.

OSX is the future. I am glad Apple is aiming high on this... If they made sacrifices in the OS to support older systems, and I had to pay for those sacrifices in the OS that just came with my G4 than I would be pissed. (and so would you)

Those with the oldest systems should be the most gratfull for this, as you will be the first to reap the true rewards, as you are the ones that will be getting new systems the soonest...

In 3-4 years from now, we will all have new G4 and G5 systems.. and all will be good.

[edX]

Couldn't pass up the $100 rebate and 6 months interest free financing.

any chance you set yourself up for this kind of thing? rebates are sure signs that something is on it's way out of the manufacturers plans. The whole idea is to get you to buy up their leftover stock so they can start making more off the next innovation. I'm not criticizing you as i do this as well, but i also am aware that it's like buying a car right before the new models come out. It simply won't be as good as what is right around the proverbial corner. You are destined to lose support before the guy who waits a month or two to buy the latest, most advanced thing for more $$. for me that's ok, and i'm not going to gripe about it when it's time to move on.

enjoy the new rig while you can. it too will be a piece of history someday.