Right, I was an iBook SE 2000 owner and was a bit miffed about no hardware acceleration for my video card when X came out. My iBook was really almost unusable in X with the slow video redraws. I too bought a Pismo that I upgraded with the G3 900 upgrade and a gig of RAM so I am not complaining now, but the iBook was never really meant to be upgraded. Putting a 60GB hard drive in the Pismo took 10 minutes...I have seen pictures of swapping a drive in an iBook and it was not pretty...you've got to take a few hundred pieces apart. RAM maxes out low due to a soldered main chip so the issue really is that Apple purposely builds in obsolescence into some of their computers...the lower end, and develop their OS to work best with the newest hardware, so we'll buy new machines. They're bread and butter is hardware so if we could all still use our 98-2000 machines with Panther (aside from my Pismo which does run Panther quite nicely, but cost a pretty penny to upgrade), they're going to continue to innovate for the new hardware. Right or wrong it makes good business sense. Should they be responsible for making claims that don't quite pan out? Maybe...the lawyers are looking to make the real money, while some consumers feel that they deserve something based on the principle that they've been misled. I had my yo-yo power adapter spark, melt the power cable and burn a bit recently and called Apple. They sent me a new one right out, yet there is even now a law firm looking for people to complain on just this issue so they can file a class action. Since Apple took care of me, fair is fair and nobody was hurt, but if this is as common as the lawyers want you to believe and there is a safety hazard, that is a different story altogether.
But that's a whole different can of worms there isn't it. I did follow the thread at the beginning before it turned into a class action. I think the original intent was to force Apple to complete the ATI RageLT driver so that those users would benefit from video hardware acceleration. I did drop the ball when I moved to a Pismo, so I don't really what happened, but it looks like Apple didn't want to do it, hence it resulted in a class-action... Just my $0.02... -Laurent. -- ======================================================================== === Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
