<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 17-Jan-06, at 5:57 PM, Ralph Lewis wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>In my opinion Classic has served it time and should be let loose into the great beyond. You can still get cross country in a covered wagon, but a new car will get you there faster and in more comfort. </DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Sure, but you'd have to shell out money to buy the car. And what if you don't need to go cross country, but just round the block? For that, a car is not really *<B><I>that </I></B><B><I>much</I></B>* better, is it.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I still have plenty of programs, which originally cost me a fortune, that run only under Classic. They serve me well - one of them is PageMaker. Why should I shell out good money for the latest and greatest programs when I don't really need them?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(One of the reasons I got a TiBook instead of the-then newly-released AlBook - that was in July 2003 - was that the TiBook would boot in OS 9 while the AlBook wouldn't.)</DIV></BODY></HTML>