georgelien
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Don't get me wrong. I've been a Mac user for over 10 years. Bought a few Power Macintoshes when many people expected Apple to go out of business. But today I have to say that Apple sucks!
Here's why. I bought the PowerBook G4 in Taiwan as soon as it came out early this year. The reason is I wanted a PowerBook with "[G4] inside." Why did I want a G4 machine? Because I wanted to run MacOS X on it of course. Then from a promotion, I got a copy of MacOS X and 2 more years of AppleCare for my TiBook. And that's when my nightmare began.
The MacOS X copy was 10.0.3. It could let me input Chinese characters, but it could not be upgraded to 10.0.4. So I bought myself a copy of 10.1 English, only later realized that I could not input Chinese. What the hell is going on over there Apple? I thought one of the beauties of MacOS is its awesome language support?
I'm still using MacOS X everyday on my PowerBook G4. But I start wondering the value of getting a new current Mac when my old Power Macintosh 8600/300 running 300 MHz G2 processor seems to be running almost as fast as my PowerBook G4/500 on MacOS X. Oh, by the way, PM 8600 can input Chinese, Japanese as well as English with MacOS 9.1. It will definitely run faster than my TiBook after I upgrade to a 500MHz G3 processor and move to OS 9.21.
Apple, you've got to do something before loyalists like me stop buying your products. Now, get your ass to work!
Very disappointed customer,
George Lien
English Consultant
georgelien@email.com
Here's why. I bought the PowerBook G4 in Taiwan as soon as it came out early this year. The reason is I wanted a PowerBook with "[G4] inside." Why did I want a G4 machine? Because I wanted to run MacOS X on it of course. Then from a promotion, I got a copy of MacOS X and 2 more years of AppleCare for my TiBook. And that's when my nightmare began.
The MacOS X copy was 10.0.3. It could let me input Chinese characters, but it could not be upgraded to 10.0.4. So I bought myself a copy of 10.1 English, only later realized that I could not input Chinese. What the hell is going on over there Apple? I thought one of the beauties of MacOS is its awesome language support?
I'm still using MacOS X everyday on my PowerBook G4. But I start wondering the value of getting a new current Mac when my old Power Macintosh 8600/300 running 300 MHz G2 processor seems to be running almost as fast as my PowerBook G4/500 on MacOS X. Oh, by the way, PM 8600 can input Chinese, Japanese as well as English with MacOS 9.1. It will definitely run faster than my TiBook after I upgrade to a 500MHz G3 processor and move to OS 9.21.
Apple, you've got to do something before loyalists like me stop buying your products. Now, get your ass to work!
Very disappointed customer,
George Lien
English Consultant
georgelien@email.com