It appears that C. Gill, [email protected], wrote: >I'm curious as to who else might still be using CE as their sole or >primary e-mail application. Anyone out there?
Here I am, coming out of the woodwork. Still using CE2 as the primary email program, It runs 100% perfectly on OS 10.4.11, and handles all my correspondence. If my ISP eventually times me out of CE, I too will need some good advice on where to go. 10.4.11 on PowerPC is not too slow for any application that I use. My PowerBook G4 will also boot from a 10.5.8 partition, but I hardly ever use that. I have a web-based email address which I use for mail from commercial sources and HTML senders. I need the "Classic" in 10.4.11 not only for CE, but for tons of old apps and records dating back to my first Mac Plus in 1988. I actually have two identical PowerBook G4s which I got cheap from eBay, so that I don't have to miss a beat in case of trouble. There's nothing like good backup. (I use "SuperDuper" to back up to an external HD. It handles multiple partitions perfectly, unlike "Time Machine.") You can stay with CE for your correspondence, if you like, by getting a PowerBook G4 from eBay, and using it as an auxiliary machine. (I also have an older 1997 "Original PowerBook G3" in the garage which boots in 8.1 and 8.6, which I occasionally use for really old stuff.) For lack of Classic, I cannot buy a new Mac, and so Apple (crying all the way to the bank) loses my money, and that of an unknown number of other "old timers" that they have "cast adrift." I am sure that "SheepSaver" would be clunky compared to the smoothness and elegance of "Classic." I am using "Classic" apps and records every day, and they run ever so smoothly alongside OSX. It appears that Charlie Zimmerman, [email protected], wrote: >Neither Safari, Firefox or iTunes are being updated for OS X 10.5.8 Check out "TenFourFox," which is FireFox being kept up-to-date for 10.4, 10.5, and PPC by a group which is authorized by Mozilla. Safari 4.1.2 still does the job for the few things TenFourFox doesn't handle. It appears that Peter Bunn, [email protected], wrote: >Anyways... thought I'd chime in... as maybe the last to 'let go'. No, you're not, Peter! I intend to hold on to that title! Best regards to all, and again, tons of thanks to "Chris," the legendary "CE answer man," who saved my butt and the butts of many others, dozens of times. We hope you're still "listening," Chris! Bill (now 81. When I go, will I have been the last?? If so, it was Chris who kept me "alive.") _______________________________oOo______________________________ William D. Bandes [email protected] Roseville CA USA
