on 12/16/02 10:31 AM, James E. Gribble III at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bob: > I have a 9gig external scsi with OSX on it, and I don't know why I put that > system > on that drive. I have had nothing but problems with X. It will boot up, but > the > only > thing that appears is a blue screen desktop, and the date/time/volume is the > only > thing that > is accessible on the task bar at the top right corner of the desktop. After I > first installed > it, it had all the icons across the bottom, but since it does not work like > any > other Mac OS's, > I was completely lost. And yes, there are plenty of upgrades necessary for X. > I > have > not been happy with X. Hope you have much better luck! Jimmy > > Robert Payne wrote: > >> on 12/16/02 2:39 AM, Rachel & Greg Olson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote: >> >>>> I also feel trapped by OSX and am considering trashing the PC 604/132 in >>>> favor of the small G4 desktop at $1299. The problem is: "What about all my >>>> drives and devises? Will they work okay with OSX and G4? Plus I'm looking >>>> at >>>> the cost of software upgrades, USB to SCSI and on and on. Worse: I wonder >>>> if >>>> OSX will produce more problems than benifits if I stick with it. >>> Again, Thanks >> >> Bob >> >> -- > Thanks for the help. I am now leaning in the direction of buying the low-end G4 desktop and using my two HDs for BU and storage. Under this mode, I can run Photoshop, Explorer and MS Office on the G4 and the rest of the software on one of the HDs. I believe I can "SCSI" chain the HDs and the scanner. What do you think?
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