At 9:56 AM -0400 5/4/04, John Griffin wrote: >Well, one thing about this machine that I find a pain-in-the-behind is that >all the boot disks such the TechTool CD and DiskWarrior CD (as well as the >TechTool eDisk) will no longer boot. All you get is an international symbol >of the circle with the slash through it. I guess more updates will have to >be forthcoming (or, the companies involved stating that they will no longer >support new Apple releases). > >I just wonder what is in the system that is on the new Panther disks that is >so essential that the machine will not boot without it! Bummer for me. Following trouble and uncertainty reports I held off on purchasing OS X utility disks until a week ago. I got Disk Warrior, TechTool Pro and Data Recovery Suite. About one day later my 1.5 GHz Al 17" arrived. I haven't yet tried those emergency CD's on it. I wish they had served me for more than 1 day. -- Regards, Steve (is tv wake zone?)