I know this is kind of a null point, as I guess my oppinion is not as revered here as many of the more 'regulars' on the board, but here is my quids worth...
OS 9 was good. I agree. But it can't come close to the foundations and features OS X can offer. I upgraded to OS X almost as soon as it was released, coming in at the 10.0.4 days. I loved it from the start. Sure, back then I heavily relied on Classic to help me out when some things didn't work under X, and yes, occasionally I even booted back into 9. This changed when 10.1 came out. I have not booted back into OS 9 since I upgraded, and since 10.2 I have not even used Classic under X.
It was nice to know my Mac could still boot into 9 if I needed it to though, something of a fail safe. However, this September I bought a Power Mac G4 (FW800), and so with that came the worry that I could no longer boot into 9. However, this has not been a problem. Infact, I have deleted most of the OS 9 apps that classic installed on the comp, booted classic once to make sure it was still working, and never seen it since.
Why should Apple have to continue to support an outdated standard? As one poster suggested, if you need OS 9 get one of the 1.25Ghz Power Mac G4s from the Apple Store that still support it. OS 9 will never need more powerful hardware, because there are never going to be any new hardware intensive features added to the OS. It will last forever. And for those of us happy living in the 21st century, then everything is good by us as it stands.
Col
OS 9 was good. I agree. But it can't come close to the foundations and features OS X can offer. I upgraded to OS X almost as soon as it was released, coming in at the 10.0.4 days. I loved it from the start. Sure, back then I heavily relied on Classic to help me out when some things didn't work under X, and yes, occasionally I even booted back into 9. This changed when 10.1 came out. I have not booted back into OS 9 since I upgraded, and since 10.2 I have not even used Classic under X.
It was nice to know my Mac could still boot into 9 if I needed it to though, something of a fail safe. However, this September I bought a Power Mac G4 (FW800), and so with that came the worry that I could no longer boot into 9. However, this has not been a problem. Infact, I have deleted most of the OS 9 apps that classic installed on the comp, booted classic once to make sure it was still working, and never seen it since.
Why should Apple have to continue to support an outdated standard? As one poster suggested, if you need OS 9 get one of the 1.25Ghz Power Mac G4s from the Apple Store that still support it. OS 9 will never need more powerful hardware, because there are never going to be any new hardware intensive features added to the OS. It will last forever. And for those of us happy living in the 21st century, then everything is good by us as it stands.
Col