Originally posted by mstecker
What features work so poorly on the G3s that OSX should not be considered "functional?".
I run a iMac DV (in a Marathon 1U rackmount case) and a couple of iBooks, and I've never noticed any performance problems.
m.
These were original hardware features that were not supported on my beige G3, which was listed under "supported" (with no caveats):
1) No floppy drive support (like I cared)
2) No serial support (my printer was old anyhow)
3) No OpenGL video card support
4) No A/V personality card support
5) Limited SCSI support
and that was my machine. None of these were ever resolved with even the most recent version of Jaguar.
Other machines lost CD burning ability and DVD playing ability while in OSX.
This wasn't an issue of speed with me. It was an issue of original hardware support.
Support means support, not partial support. A chair either supports your weight or it doesn't. You either support your friends or you don't. Some people would suggest that the mere running of OSX on a machine entails support. That's rubbish and I hope I never have to count on their "support" for anything. Apple apologists should just let this one go. Apple was deceitful and conniving in their list of supported machines. A few short sentences on their packaging or on their OSX page would have saved them a lot of trouble and money.