[MacDV] The New Towers - (formerly "refurbished G4")

[Chris Muir]

At 10:29 AM -0700 1/25/03, KathyMac! wrote:
>So, I guess the question is: Why can't we take home one of these new towers
>that are only bootable in X and wipe the drive clean, reformat it, and
>partition it with both 9 and X? I was told it couldn't be done but I'd like
>to know why.

Ever since Apples went to the "New World" or "ROM in RAM" approach, OS 9 generally needs customization for each new motherboard/chipset that gets produced. For some products this isn't needed because the machine is based on the same generation of chips as were in a previous machine.

Apple is no longer doing the work to make OS 9 boot on new chipsets and motherboards. It's not like Apple is doing anything to sabotage OS 9 working, they are just not doing any work in that area.

-C

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