My thinking is it was this guy has a laptop and he sent it to Apple as out of warranty, for repair.
The OP might have avoided the problem, spent less money, and gotten a faster return, if he just took the laptop and purchased a HD upgrade. Of course if the problem was with the logic board, it wouldn't have solved it.
In this case I'd agree (the golfing buddies angle). They screwed the pooch, and their stock options became worthless because of what they did. It would have been IMHO perfectly acceptable to let these guys deal with their own screwup.
In other case's a retention bonus does make sense, though not for these guys.
I bought a Saab in 04 (?), GM had just added OnStar to the Saab line and was bundling the first year free. Saab's are built in Sweden, they do not have Onstar in Sweden. So they weren't really able to test it at the factory. IT WAS BUGGY AS HELL.
The state I lived in had a lemon law which stated, that if a new car went into the shop 4 times for the same thing, it was by the state's definition "A Lemon". Well OnStar got my car labelled as a Lemon and GM had to buy it back. I got the next years model, went up a trim line and kept the same car payment.
I think I used OnStar once.
(In relation to this story) The primary reason that OnStar was flaking out, was b/c it was the first revision of units using the Digital Cell System vs Analog.
I'm not sure if you are keeping up with all of the posts, but I think it is possible to run X instead of the Finder, but I don't think Coccoa GUI apps would run.
From the Login screen type >console for the username.
This will give you a CLI, instead of the login windows
From here you should be able to login and start X.
(I haven't tried this step).
The old x86 version of Darwin, which apple release as OSS ran X instead of Finder.
You can install CrossOver Office and then run the WINDOWS version of iTunes.
(Or download wine and install it from there, though that might require some tweaking).
IF you have the source code you can (THEORHETICALLY) install the GNUStep enivronment, then recompile against the GNUStep libraries.
Though I'd voice the opinion of the other posters: WHY??
* If you don't want to spend the money on an emulator, you can also get Qemu (or its mac version) and run that. Then interact with Qemu as your Window, or run X11 and have them run of the guest os (This also let you (optionally) play/learn with networking, shared authentication, having different web browsers for testing etc). (I'd recomend VMware for the Mac instead, just for the ease of networking).
* Another possibility is to boot up to X instead of Cocoa, this would give you the linux look and feel. Though I don't think X would be able to handle graphic calls by Coccoa apps.
* Install Fink or Darwin Ports (or whatever its called now) and just run the Macintosh compiled version of your X11 apps.
* Buy CrossOver Office for Linux and run the WINDOWS version of iTunes. (CrossOver Office is also available for the Mac as well as WINE). (OR ALL OF THE ABOVE)
I signed up the beta, very shortly after it was announced. Today I got a message from Intel, thanking me and informing me the beta program was full b/c of the overwhelming response.
(Despite the link saying I would get the download information immediately after signing up).
Powerbook G4 is an older processor in the speed wars. There is less of a difference in between the G5 and Intel based iMac, but still some. (It is closer to 2-3x faster).
The Powerbook G4 is single core, the Macbook Pro is dual core.
Bus speed is 667 Mhz 4x faster, as well as faster memory.
One drawback is that most of the program out there 'Right now' are compiled for PPC only and would run under Rosetta, so the performance will not be as good. Code that is "Universal" should be able to take advantage the faster processor.
Its more likely to run Mac apps under Linux.
If the programer write it using Objective-C. A linux box using OpenStep, might be able to recompile it.
Is there OpenStep for Windows?
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My thinking is it was this guy has a laptop and he sent it to Apple as out of warranty, for repair.
The OP might have avoided the problem, spent less money, and gotten a faster return, if he just took the laptop and purchased a HD upgrade. Of course if the problem was with the logic board, it wouldn't have solved it.
In this case I'd agree (the golfing buddies angle). They screwed the pooch, and their stock options became worthless because of what they did. It would have been IMHO perfectly acceptable to let these guys deal with their own screwup. In other case's a retention bonus does make sense, though not for these guys.
I bought a Saab in 04 (?), GM had just added OnStar to the Saab line and was bundling the first year free. Saab's are built in Sweden, they do not have Onstar in Sweden. So they weren't really able to test it at the factory. IT WAS BUGGY AS HELL. The state I lived in had a lemon law which stated, that if a new car went into the shop 4 times for the same thing, it was by the state's definition "A Lemon". Well OnStar got my car labelled as a Lemon and GM had to buy it back. I got the next years model, went up a trim line and kept the same car payment. I think I used OnStar once. (In relation to this story) The primary reason that OnStar was flaking out, was b/c it was the first revision of units using the Digital Cell System vs Analog.
I'm not sure if you are keeping up with all of the posts, but I think it is possible to run X instead of the Finder, but I don't think Coccoa GUI apps would run. From the Login screen type >console for the username. This will give you a CLI, instead of the login windows From here you should be able to login and start X. (I haven't tried this step). The old x86 version of Darwin, which apple release as OSS ran X instead of Finder.
You can install CrossOver Office and then run the WINDOWS version of iTunes. (Or download wine and install it from there, though that might require some tweaking).
IF you have the source code you can (THEORHETICALLY) install the GNUStep enivronment, then recompile against the GNUStep libraries.
Though I'd voice the opinion of the other posters: WHY??
* If you don't want to spend the money on an emulator, you can also get Qemu (or its mac version) and run that. Then interact with Qemu as your Window, or run X11 and have them run of the guest os (This also let you (optionally) play/learn with networking, shared authentication, having different web browsers for testing etc). (I'd recomend VMware for the Mac instead, just for the ease of networking).
* Another possibility is to boot up to X instead of Cocoa, this would give you the linux look and feel. Though I don't think X would be able to handle graphic calls by Coccoa apps.
* Install Fink or Darwin Ports (or whatever its called now) and just run the Macintosh compiled version of your X11 apps.
* Buy CrossOver Office for Linux and run the WINDOWS version of iTunes. (CrossOver Office is also available for the Mac as well as WINE).
(OR ALL OF THE ABOVE)
I'm waiting for IND to approve my KM app. (4 months, so far) I'm in Amsterdam ZO also, how do those free Dutch lessons work?
I signed up the beta, very shortly after it was announced. Today I got a message from Intel, thanking me and informing me the beta program was full b/c of the overwhelming response.
(Despite the link saying I would get the download information immediately after signing up).
There are several reasons:
Powerbook G4 is an older processor in the speed wars. There is less of a difference in between the G5 and Intel based iMac, but still some. (It is closer to 2-3x faster).
The Powerbook G4 is single core, the Macbook Pro is dual core.
Bus speed is 667 Mhz 4x faster, as well as faster memory.
One drawback is that most of the program out there 'Right now' are compiled for PPC only and would run under Rosetta, so the performance will not be as good. Code that is "Universal" should be able to take advantage the faster processor.
Its more likely to run Mac apps under Linux. If the programer write it using Objective-C. A linux box using OpenStep, might be able to recompile it. Is there OpenStep for Windows?
Codeweaves (who does Crossover Office (which lets Linux run MS Office)), has announced that they will be supporting OS X on Intel
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