[G4] Apple pulls back on OS X-only plan for Macs

[David M. Ensteness]

Yeah, I read about this last week before MacNN picked up on it. I am 
sure many people will be happy with it, the actual article also states 
that the 1.25GHz Dual G4 model will be available with Mac OS 9 on it 
due to Quark's inability to advance their only product to Mac OS X ... 
Personally, I am not all about this ...

David

On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 04:56  PM, bofus? wrote:

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> Apple pulls back on OS X-only plan for Macs
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> Apple has pulled back from a plan that would have made Mac OS X the 
> primary operating system on all new Macs starting in January, 
> according c|net: "Apple will continue to sell schools some Macs 
> capable of booting up into Mac OS 9, and will continue to sell a Power 
> Mac G4 geared toward professionals such as graphic designers until 
> June 2003," Apple said in a statement to select media outlets. The 
> company said that educational customers are ordering 50% of the its 
> Macs with Mac OS X as the default OS and that it "expects this 
> percentage to climb to over 75 percent by the start of the next 
> education buying season this April." (In September, Steve Jobs said 
> that all new Macs would only boot Mac OS X beginning in January 2003.
>
> http://macnn.com/news.php?id=17729