On 9 May 2005, at 14:48, Dan Stewart wrote:
In summary, AFAICT, when you buy Tiger, you no longer get:
1. Classic included. Needs a copy of OS 9. (But it always did,
and Apple ceased shipping OS 9 with Jaguar.) Under Jag and Pan,
Apple ran a fulfillment program. Purchasers of Jag or Pan could
buy a copy of OS 9 for a low shipping charge so they could run
Classic. This option seems to have disappeared from Apple's web-
site.
Who cares? Are people actually still plodding along with this
junk? It will probably become a free download, like the other old
MacOS versions. If not, you can always buy it cheaply on eBay.
Only OS 6, 7 and 7.5.3/5 are free. All the rest of Apple's old OS
junk still has to be paid for. I have clients still using OS 9, or
still using Apps which need it or Classic (such as earlier versions
of Quark Xpress). The print trade is very conservative, in the UK at
least. So it's an issue for people who are half-converted to OS X.
This might put them off upgrading to Tiger machines. Pity. For
myself, I still find a need to use vintage Mac utilities for certain
tasks. Like others, I'm obliged to plod on with this junk for a while
yet.
2. iLife included, except (cynically?) for iTunes. The three
basic iApps (iTunes, iMovie3, IPhoto2) are still freely
available. They were also included with Jag and Pan. Since Pan,
they have been updated twice in iLife 04, and iLife 05. File
formats have changed. Arguably, the new versions are better, but
they ain't free any more. And they don't come with Tiger, so you
must buy them separately as an iLife box. iDVD has always been
non-free, of course (perhaps because of MPEG licencing issues).
This could possibly be a problem, but as I don't use any of them,
it doesn't bother me.
Just reporting the facts.
3. Classic AppleShare. AFP over AppleTalk has been disabled, to
the apparent annoyance of many academic organisations who have
legacy AppleShare servers tucked away in dark corners.
Again, are people actually still plodding along with "Appleshare
servers"? Get a real server OS already.
Just reporting the facts. This is more of an issue for users with pre-
OS 9 systems, who have been used to sharing using Personal File
Sharing, and now can't share to Tiger clients that way. Of course,
they'll have to find workarounds. Maybe they'll have to "get a real
computer" at last (or a Windows PC, as it's known in MIS circles...)
4. IE included. It's available as a download from MS. Given
Safari and Firefox, IE should only be a rare need for Mac OS X
users.
Who cares? IE for OS X sucks donkey balls anyways. Safari is
much better.
Alas, I still sometimes find sites which won't work right except with
IE, so I keep it around on my dock.
5. Acrobat Reader included. It's available as a download from
Adobe. Given Preview, Acrobat Reader is less essential.
True.
6. Stuffit Expander included. It's available as a download from
Aladdin/Allume. And mercifully doesn't need itself to expand itself.
True.
So, except for the Ilife apps, the rest is pretty useless to the
vast majority of users. If you still need "Classic", chances are
you already have it by now. If you're still running antique Macs
with prehistoric OSes using Appleshare, then now is the time come
into the 21st century.
Just trying to summarise the facts, Dan. This is the unsupported X
list. People running unsupported X aren't in the 21st century yet,
are they? Or they'd just spend the bucks on a new Mac and forget XPF
ever existed, surely.
GWW
Dan
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