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Macs Won't Boot Into Mac OS in 2003

Posted by pudge on from the no-booting-for-you dept.

Magnus Olsson writes "Apple announced at Apple Expo in Paris, that they are dropping the ability to boot into Mac OS after January 2003. It will still be possible to access Mac OS via the Classic environment under Mac OS X." Apparently, eWeek was right, and the final nail is being driven. So, where's mol for Mac OS X?

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  1. Mistake... by Bonker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, mod me down for bashing apple, bitches...

    This is a serious mistake. You don't gain market share by eliminating applications or users. Microsoft tried this, (By trying to leverage NT4 for the desktop) and watched it backfire horribly. Apple even watched it happen once before, when they switched from 68k architecture, to PowerPC. They ended up having to include an interperater/emulator for 68k apps in later versions of Mac0S.

    Yeah, most users should stay up and keep the latest and greatest of apps, compiled directly for your platform. The *rest* of the world knows that this just doesn't happen. Not all of the apps we love or *have* to use are open source or will run properly on more than one OS. If you don't beleive me, just look at all the DOS games that didn't work under Windows 2000 that were 'fixed' under WinXP. I know people who dual-boot solely so they can play Tomb Raider 1.

    If Apple does not include functionality to use OS7/8/9 apps in OSX, then it will hurt them.

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  2. Re:Story has it backwards by Herbmaster · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Apple is not explicitly doing anything to the hardware to prevent OS 9 booting that could otherwise occur. They are simply not bothering to update OS 9 to boot on the new hardware, since it is legacy code.

    Do you have any evidence to support your assertion that a) Apple isn't intentionally crippling their future hardware so as to not run OS9 and b) Apple's next model, circa 2003, includes significant architecture changes such that OS9 will not boot it? There is no reason to believe that OS9 would have to be updated to support the 2003 Macs. There are many examples of new systems Apple has released that did not require new versions of MacOS to run. For example, the latest Dual G4s.

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  3. They just keep lineing up to get screwed by huper · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I don't really get it.. Mac people get hosed more often then anyone.


    They pay 2 much for hardware.

    With their expensive hardware they only get 1 mouse button.

    They have to pay for servicepacks (10.2).

    and Now they cant install what they want on their machines


    But I guess they do look good.
    -huper