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Apple to Accept Returns of Mac OS X on Some G3s
An anonymous reader writes "A class-action lawsuit was filed over Mac OS X not working correctly on some of the older G3's, and Apple has tentatively agreed to refund the purchase price of the OS ($129) to people who purchased it for use on those computers, and wish to return it." The agreement is not final. If you wish to continue using the OS on your computer, despite it not working fully, you can instead receive a $25 coupon. The deal will, apparently, apply to the iMacs through the fruit-colored models; the pre-chiclet iBooks; the PowerBook G3s; the first three Power Mac G3 models; and the all-in-one Power Mac G3.
You do not understand the situation. The plaintiffs aren't whiners. We already pay more for Macs, Apple could at least be honest about its products. You can install and use OS X on an early G3, its just that everything isn't supported. DVD Playing that ran under OS 9 DOES NOT RUN on OS X. But Apple said it would. Apple said Mac OS X was the greatest OS in the world. So they can't shoehorn BSD onto a 233Mhz G3 and make it play DVD's? Come on. If OS 9 could do it, if on PC hardware Windows 98 and Linux can do it then why can't OS X?
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
"The right thing", my ass. Rhapsody was going to run on any PowerMac! In 1996! No, 1997! No, any non-NuBus PowerMac! No, sorry, any 603/604(e)! No, just G3s! Yes, if you buy a G3 NOW it will DEFINITELY run Rhapsody! I mean Mac OS X!
Sorry, it doesn't run fully on G3 iMacs. Or G3 iBooks. But definitely on G4s! And our new Jeff Goldblum Edition G5s!
Fucking Apple. They should buy every one of their customers a new Dell to make up for their near-decade of bullshit.
Don't try that "protecting the children" shit you people use to keep the tits and bad words off my TV. --Seanbaby
....sometimes. Oh, wait, that's Microsoft's slogan. Damn. Sorry.