He was missing out on advanced features of later versions, and was able to unleash more creativity when he finally upgraded... Kind of like saying you're happy with your old jalopy Escort that works fine for chugging to the store and back: that may be true, but you're missing out on the driving experience of fun, reliable transportation.
This is most apparant in internet software, where development of browsers and email clients has come to a screeching halt, and, frankly, today's web doesn't work well on outdated browsers, and spam chokes the old email programs that don't have sophistacated spam filtering. I think Opera may still have an OS 9 browser on life support, but Opera itself is on life support, especially with FireFox growing by leaps and bounds.
Having machines that run both OS 9 and OS X, I realize that OS 9 development is over, and it will only fall further and further behind as the OS X world moves on.
Before everybody flames me about how they're going to use OS 9 forever, remember that the same arguments were made when we all moved from System 6 to System 7, and from System 7 to System 8. I remember people trying to hack OS 8.6 to use early versions of iTunes that only worked with OS 9, because they didn't want to upgrade from 8.6 to 9.
Is anybody out there going to convince me that using System 6.0.8 is perfectly viable?
Greg
On Apr 16, 2005, at 4:59 PM, MaxTek wrote:
I got the G3 AIO with 200 something ram, 4 gig drive, 56k modem, 24X CD and
a 2 port USB card for $28 and the G4/400 zif for $76.
I will soon be putting in the 40G/7400 hard drive I got on sale at CompUSA
(can't remember how much be it was pretty cheap. I bought 2 more for
friends) in my AIO.
So after all said and done I think it is a great machine for a great price.
I still use OS 9 daily and probably will download XPostFacto and try to put
on X. Not that important though.
With the G4 zif upgrade it feels twice as fast but I don't know without doing some benchmarks.
Sure I want the Mac Mini as well as a 20" iMac but for now I am pretty
happy. A lot of people keep talking about the $500 mac and that it is hard
to justify upgrading an old mac. I personally disagree. A $104 for a
G4/415/USB/24x all in one sounds great to me.
One more thing...why do people always say the old beige machines run
children's software just fine...I am using a host of programs, from Adobe to
Quark and everything in between. And they are NOT old versions. They are the
last versions for OS 9.
MaxTek --------
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Greg Koelpien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [G] G4/400 Zif for G3 AIO [correction] Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 10:32:33 -0500
When you can get a brand new machine for $500, it's hard to justify the expense of upgrading an older machine, especially one that's pre-USB and pre-FireWire, both of which are allegedly required for OS X 10.4. However, if this is being done for sentimental reasons or from a hot-rodder's perspective, then go for it. I find that setting a concrete budget of, say, $100 and picking and choosing what to get may be a better way to go. The old beige machines run children's software titles (usually) fine under OS 9.
Greg
On Apr 15, 2005, at 5:41 PM, ray wrote:
I have a 366 mHz beige G3 - pretty much the same as an AIO so I am interested in knowing if it is really worth all that you have done - is the upgrade twice as fast? how much?
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