[P1] FYI: New iBooks, no dual-boot

[Mark Kippert]

Marc van Gemert on 5/2/03 3:58 AM wrote:

> Just back from the Apple Store, picked up a 900 MHz
> iBook/12,1"/40GB/384MB/combo drive for a friend of mine (well he
> actually came along to get it himself :-). Just heard from the guys
> there selling it that the new range of iBooks (800 & 900 MHz) cannot
> dual-boot anymore, they only run Jaguar (10.2.4 to be exact) and up, and
> can only run OS 9 via Classic.
> Just a FYI.
> 
> Marc

That really come as no surprise. Apple announced quite a while ago that in
January 2003, systems would no longer be dual boot.

<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/sep/10macosx.html>

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86209>

However I had also read back around January (but can't find a reference at
the moment) that they extended that deadline to sometime in April for
certain models, iBooks and eMacs I believe, because of the large number of
educational users (schools) who still need to boot into OS9 since they have
a lot of OS9 based applications. Plus being forced to transition to OSX
during a school year creates a lot of difficulties for them.

-Mark