[MacDV] Re: The 20inch LCD Conspiracy

[Robert Meadors]

This is all simple and kind of off topic. QUIT whining! If you have an 
8600, this monitor couldn't be used anyway. If you are doing audio 
production and your machine works, why do you care about the new stuff. 
Just like the rest of us, when you save up the money or deem it 
necessary to upgrade do it. IIRC, ALL Apple computers will use a CRT 
with no problem! Apple has taken a group of very nice displays and 
priced them so that many MORE people can actually get one without 
giving up the family vacation. Please let this die and GET OVER IT. 
Your Mac works like it is and there is plenty of time to become 
"modern!"

Chris
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 05:54  AM, Bobbo wrote:

> Mike jumped in:
>>
>> Why all of this condemnation for Apple doing what is in its best
>> interests - namely to move its current customer base into the future 
>> of
>> its product line?
>>
>> Apple's made it no secret that as far as it is concerned, OS 9 is 
>> dead.
>>  Yet people keep finding all these "sneaky" things they're doing to
>> "trick" poor little OS 9 users to switch to OS X.
>>
>> Switch or don't switch - Apple probably won't care.  But expecting
>> Apple to keep sitting on the fence just because some others do is
>> pointless.
>
> IMO, what Apple does best is create alternatives, superior in 
> reliability
> and ease of use, to the prevailing platform. It also has shown itself 
> to be
> creative in design and form factor, usually to the good, occasionally 
> not.
> But most transitions have been voluntary, at least for several years.
> Apple's track record on system upgrades has been horrendous, with most
> systems since 7.0 being buggy and problematic.
>
> I've gone on record before objecting to Apple's decision to make new
> machines unbootable in X, and how it has cost them my future business 
> until
> X supports current choices in software and hardware. This is of no 
> concern
> to you, if you choose not to "sit on the fence," and many people are 
> just
> pleased as punch with X. But to those of us in the audio business, not 
> so.
> I run DECK 2.6 for audio, because it does what it does a whole lot more
> reliably (if less flamboyantly) than BIAS' version 3.0. I make my 
> living
> with it and it is critical for me to be able to boot into 9. X 
> continues to
> deliver shabby compatibility, if at all, with such things as Epson 
> drivers
> for their newer printers and, while this is the fault of Epson (there 
> are
> many), it leaves me with the choice of using the mandated X, or losing
> functionality.
>
> Do what you want, Mike, and enjoy X. But don't be so quick to defend
> Apple's strongarm insistence that the rest of us march to its drummer. 
> That
> sounds more like a M$ tactic to me.
>
> B