I'll contact you privately so that we can arrange for the CD. But,
I'd like to know what Mac you're using? Also, did you know that you
can turn off some of the things in 10.4 that you probably find
annoying (like I did)....one being Dashboard. I hated it. I
disabled it on all my Macs. If I want to know the weather, I'll
check outside, or my local news channel. On some of my Mac
keyboards, hitting F12 to eject the CD would launch Dashboard until I
discovered that you had to hold the key down for a bit longer then
the drive would eject....how annoying! But I come from the world
where I never used OS 9. I switched in 2001 from the PC. They had
just introduced Windows ME and it came with my latest purchase. It
was a Gateway with an AMD 900 mhz and it would crash every time you
looked at it sideways. I had to totally re-install the OS at least 6
times in 3 months......losing all of my data each time. It was
during that time that I bought an old PowerPC 7200 off Ebay and
started playing with it. It ran everything just fine and worked fine
on the network. It was running 8.6. I had a copy of Office on it and
was actually able to get work done while my PC sat there with the
BSOD (BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH). I was in the habit of buying a new
computer each year and when it came time, I bought a Mac PowerPC 867
G4 it had 10.1 and 9.2 on it.....it booted into 10.1 and I just never
ran anything else. All the software that I've purchased has been for
OS X. From 2001 until the middle of last year, I had gotten rid of
every PC in our house and was making efforts to get relatives to come
over to the Mac side by giving away Macs that I was replacing with
new ones I bought. Finally my wife had to buy a PC, her bank
required it. There intranet just wouldn't work with her Mac laptop,
it's running XP and when I ordered it from Dell, I thought that I had
gotten her a pretty good machine. Well let me tell you, trying to do
anything on it is an absolute horror! Example, over the weekend a
friend had created a zip file containing some (shall we say illegal
apps) for her in .bin or .iso format and had zipped them into one
file. We spent nearly 2 hours trying to figure out how to extract
these files using a PC app called Nero.....all without any success.
Finally I said, "Give me the CD and I brought it over to my G5 and
using Toast had the whole thing unzipped and extracted within 15
minutes. I gave her back the disks with the installation files
intact and she went on her merry way. Windows XP is the "primitive
and crude" OS. Not intuitive at all! There just doesn't seem to be
an easy way to do anything. I'll stick to OS X. It gets the job
done. It never crashes and I don't have to run tons of Antivirus
software just to connect to the internet. My main computer is a dual
2 gig G5 with 4 gig RAM. I have a 20 inch Cinema display and I love
it. I feel as though I won't need a new computer for many years to
come, but I can change my mind. I'm going to be watching closely to
see what's going to be introduce on the 11th.
In the mean time, I do want you people who still use OS 9 to know
that I DO NOT look down on you. As a matter of fact I admire the
fact that you are still able to squeeze every bit of performance that
you can out of those very powerful (in their day) computers. I LOVE
my older Macs. I keep them around and use them often. My G3 Blue &
White is running 10.3.9 Server and I might mention it does it very well.
Tim
On Jan 9, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Lou Judson wrote:
On Jan 8, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Tim Collier wrote:
Lou:
If you really want to go back to OS 9 I have installation CD's
that I'd happily give you. I have no use for them as I use 10.4.3
on ALL of MY
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