Posted on 09/13/2006 7:48:04 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
For the performance of Clovertown you'll have to wait a bit longer as we're not allowed to disclose it just yet, but we wanted to let you know that so far it's looking like you'll be able to upgrade your Mac Pro to 8 cores in the not too distant future.
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Doesn't use one. It's built in. You have to buy a pretty sophisticated sound card that has both optical audio in and out to duplicate what the Mac has natively.
They might do something like that down the road.
Yeah, but you know, if I did that I'd never get a new machine because I'd always be waiting for the next thing.
I buy a new desktop machine every 4 years, and I try to do it on a regular schedule. It was pretty well timed this time because the Mac Pro had just come out. I didn't want to buy a G5 since they were getting long in the tooth.
Prior to my MBP I was running a Vaio GRX that I'd upgraded from 1.6 to 2.4 (P4-m).
They did not intentionally lock out OS 9 - they just didn't update the Open Firmware to support OS 9 on certain new models when they were released. However, Apple did continue to sell some models that could boot OS 9 until Quark was updated to run Mac OS X. And Mac OS X always contained OS 9 Classic Mode for running old applications. The PowerPC Macs included 68000 emulation for really old apps, but the Intel Macs do not.
The new Intel Macs do not contain BIOS out of the box - they boot with Intel's EFI system. But EFI can include a "legacy BIOS" system, and Apple's Boot Camp software installs that BIOS which can boot Windows, Linux or other PC type operating systems.
I said almost all - some laptops, including your Vaio and certain Gateways, have a socketed processor, but they are few and far between.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^Usually when Apple locks something out, it seems to mean that they've found a reliability issue and can't trust it to work.^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That may be, and had they started the locking out of OS9 on G5 machines I'd agree with you.
But not on G4 machines.
^^^^^^^^^^They did not intentionally lock out OS 9 - they just didn't update the Open Firmware to support OS 9 on certain new models when they were released.^^^^^^^^^^
That's pretty much a glass half empty/full type of attitude.
So it's not what apple did, but rather what they didn't do? I really don't see the difference considering how much people pay for these machines. I could see them cutting this support on the ibooks and imac lines, but not the power lines of products.
Have you ever seen someone get fired from their job for what they *didn't* do? Yeah, either way it's the consequences of such actions that create problems.
^^^^^^^^^^Apple did continue to sell some models that could boot OS 9 until Quark was updated to run Mac OS X.^^^^^^^^^^^
Yeah, they did. However, they should've waited until G5 machines to do........... errr..... Not do what they should've done. It's just good customer service.
Did the G4s come with an operating system?
Of course they did... OS X.
Did the G4s still run old OS 9 and lower Applications?
Yes... in Classic Mode.
Classic Mode was only discontinued in 2006 with the introduction of the Intel Macs, five years after the discontinuation of OS9.
So what is your problem?
Do you even own a Mac?
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