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Apple To Prevent Booting Into Mac OS 9?
A user writes that eWeek reports "A tweak to new models in its Macintosh line of desktop and portable computers will prevent booting into Mac OS 9, sources said, leaving the Unix-based Mac OS X as the sole operating system." That's a great idea, if they want to prevent people from upgrading their hardware, and to future versions of Mac OS X. I hope it's merely a rumor; there's apparently no technical reason for it, so if true, I imagine it is just to force more people to adopt the Mac OS X.
This looks like a shot at Yellow Dog Linux users as well.
Forgive me if this is a tad off the topic, but this is the closest thread i could find to the topic i wanted to address.
I'm not quite sure how many people have gone to the apple.com sight or seen the many apple commercials advertising the SWITCH program. These are designed to get PC users to start using MACs. Actually they are trying to get (stupid) PC users to convert to MAC. Personally I have no objection to MACs for what they are or should I say, what they are useful for. MACs are good for Graphics Design and massive rendering programs. The OS is stable because it is based off of UNIX.
But you probably already know all of this, so I'll get to my real issue. In most of these apple movies the people keep talking about how their computers documents get lost and their (WINDOWS OS) fails or locks up or whatever. They make a direct assosiation between PCs and Windows. People can't be that narrow minded, (well maybe they can), but there are other OS's besided WINDOWS. Thats the beauty of Personal Computers. Sun, UNIX, Linux etc...... Most programs including game programs are written to run on PCs mostly for windows. Windows 3.1.1 wasn't that bad, but then again it was just a suped up DOS. I'm not even getting into Win95. Windows 98 wasn't that bad although it goes corrupt after a while and it need constant rebooting because of the STACK overflows.