Certain Macs will boot OS 9 until June 2003

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MacCentral reports that SOME of Apples current Configurations will be able to boot into Mac OS 9 intil June 2003. The reason for this exception aims mostly at professional customers usin Quark Express and educational customers! :)
 
actually the article sounds more like they are telling quark to get it together or get left behind. all the models mentioned are consumer level offerings for the educational market.

i think this also puts the pressure on alsoft to deliver with an osx version of diskwarrior/plusoptimizer. umax appears on the verge of releasing drivers and most everthing else i use runs in classic just fine. no os 9 boot is not as intimidating as it sounded when first announced i don't think.
 
personally i dont care if there is no os 9 boot. i switched to mac during spring and as a result my first mac experience was using OS X. of course os X was rather new and eventually i had to use some classic applications. but os 9 came later for me and i found it harder to use. for u older users changing to os X might have been a difficult adaptation, but for me using os 9 was a disadvantage. of course i mostly use my mac as a hobby and as a result os 9 became useless 2 me in a very short period of time :) for professionals os 9 might still be very useful, but i wouldnt care much if it was dead by 2morrow :)
 
well, it's primarily the amount of money that we have invested in these older programs - especially the ones we still enjoy and will probably never getted ported to osx. i have several games and a couple of apps that fit this category. nothing i couldn't live without, but still, having both has been what prompted me to move to os x. if i was in a position of choosing right now and i couldn't keep using both, i'd be hard pressed to decide to make the move.

but hey, this may raise the resale price of all the curent macs that do boot to os 9. hard to tell. i can see why switchers wouldn't care. they've already made the big decision to let go of all the money they had previously invested in software.
 
Originally posted by Ed Spruiell
well, it's primarily the amount of money that we have invested in these older programs - especially the ones we still enjoy and will probably never getted ported to osx. i have several games and a couple of apps that fit this category. nothing i couldn't live without, but still, having both has been what prompted me to move to os x. if i was in a position of choosing right now and i couldn't keep using both, i'd be hard pressed to decide to make the move.

but hey, this may raise the resale price of all the curent macs that do boot to os 9. hard to tell. i can see why switchers wouldn't care. they've already made the big decision to let go of all the money they had previously invested in software.
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I see both sides... but for "Switchers" we find that OS X is much more user friendly... than OS 9... not that I would bash OS 9... It's just that I find OS X cleaner and sleeker and I love the feel of Maya/Aqua etc... Dawrin etc...

but I do think that for those who have invested in OS 9... (Big programs you guys have... alot of money etc... well invested in...) the compaines should give extensive rebates so that people who use 9 can quickly upgrade to X without feeling they have to spend a mess load of money like they orginally paid for their OS 9 programs.

I mean if the orginal users of OS 9, could get all their orginal software updated at cheaper prices wouldn't you all make the switch?
 
Why would they disable 9? Is it really that bad to leave it there? Install it if you want it, don't if you don't. Apple doesn't have to fully support it but i think that if a person want's to stick with 9 they should be able to. The only good reason to un-support 9 would be if there was some sort of OS X or computer change that didn't allow 9 to work. Couse then 9ers would just have to keep a look out for what they buy or install.

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I have asked this before many times and have never gotten an answer, but let's try again.

Does anyone know the solution for installing all my old OS 9 applications that WON'T install in classic? I've got a ton of Adobe stuff that has been upgraded, but the required original isntaller disc will ONLY install in OS 9 native, not classic. Many apps do install fine in classic, but several other critical ones do not. And I'm not talking about throw away apps like Streamline, I'm talking about major apps like Illustrator, Photoshop, GoLive, indesign. Don't ask me to say which ones don't install under classic, as I can't recall right now.

As I see it, unless Apple improves classic, I may be stuck with some apps that simply cannot install, even though I am fully legit up thru the OS X version. That puts the pressure on the application developer to provide some kind of solution, like allowing me to buy a true installer disc (not an upgrade disc) at nominal cost or something.

Am I missing something?
 
I'll repeat what was written before : Why would they disable 9? Is it really that bad to leave it there?

What's SO bad about having OS9 ? Does Apple want to force its customers to upgrade, just as some less honorable companies do ? Isn't it my RIGHT to buy new Macs AND to keep OS9 installed for fast gaming and design with Quark & Fontographer ?
 
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I'll repeat what was written before : Why would they disable 9? Is it really that bad to leave it there?

What's SO bad about having OS9 ? Does Apple want to force its customers to upgrade, just as some less honorable companies do ? Isn't it my RIGHT to buy new Macs AND to keep OS9 installed for fast gaming and design with Quark & Fontographer ?
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You sound angry...

I believe apple wants people to upgrade to OS X because it's a new system and it's fresh and Unix based. They want to finally give MS a run for it's money but stubborn people don't want to do this to MS. They rather bicker over the loss of OS 9, rather than supporting apple in this transition period to move away from OS 9.

Yes it's your right to keep OS-9. I agree totally with you.

OS X however has almost all the programs of OS 9... ALMOST NOT ALL.
 
It becomes inefficient for Apple to continue stradling between two operating systems. Apple obviously wishes to increase revenues and gain some market share against Windows. Only by (strongly) encourging people to migrate to a single operating system will these objectives be met. Resources will no longer be divided.
 
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