the only macs at my school that run X are the 600mhz g3 imacs in the library, the librarians 17'' pb, the fp imacs in marketing and science, and the dual 867 pmacs for video editing. so that is prolly like 50 or so macs running x....
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the only macs at my school that run X are the 600mhz g3 imacs in the library, the librarians 17'' pb, the fp imacs in marketing and science, and the dual 867 pmacs for video editing. so that is prolly like 50 or so macs running x....
Re: Come on kids it is time to use OS X
Classic works fine...ha! That's a laugh if I ever heard one. Classic has so many hardware and driver related issues:
1. Numerous printers and scanners that work fine booting into 9
don't work at all in Classic, and quite a few don't have Mac OS X native drivers.
2. Quicktime plays back choppily in Classic but plays fine running natively. It improves with newer graphics cards, but even a Flat Panel iMac with 32 MB of VRAM still has problems with Quicktime in Classic. Apple's own software mind you!
3. Unless you knew it, PPPoE software needs to be disabled when running Classic and instead using the Mac OS X networking software to enable PPPoE for Classic network applications to work on PPPoE broadband networks. That means if you are moving to using Classic exclusively instead of booting into Mac OS 9, you need to make sure that you have disabled the 9 PPPoE software, otherwise you won't have a broadband connection. This has been a documented issue with Macpoet.
And that's only the tip of the iceburg. SCSI cards, SCSI scanners, Quark plugins, ProTools plugins, etc...
Until all Mac OS 9 booting software and hardware is on this page:
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html
There will be people who need to boot into Mac OS 9.
Classic works fine...ha! That's a laugh if I ever heard one. Classic has so many hardware and driver related issues:
1. Numerous printers and scanners that work fine booting into 9
don't work at all in Classic, and quite a few don't have Mac OS X native drivers.
2. Quicktime plays back choppily in Classic but plays fine running natively. It improves with newer graphics cards, but even a Flat Panel iMac with 32 MB of VRAM still has problems with Quicktime in Classic. Apple's own software mind you!
3. Unless you knew it, PPPoE software needs to be disabled when running Classic and instead using the Mac OS X networking software to enable PPPoE for Classic network applications to work on PPPoE broadband networks. That means if you are moving to using Classic exclusively instead of booting into Mac OS 9, you need to make sure that you have disabled the 9 PPPoE software, otherwise you won't have a broadband connection. This has been a documented issue with Macpoet.
And that's only the tip of the iceburg. SCSI cards, SCSI scanners, Quark plugins, ProTools plugins, etc...
Until all Mac OS 9 booting software and hardware is on this page:
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html
There will be people who need to boot into Mac OS 9.