"boot only OSX" Delay

[doug_hti]

just thought you guys might want to see this...

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.

[doug_hti]

and the original report can be seen here

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They say it's for the education market, and that may be true..but the delay is also for the benefit of Quark users. Since Quark Express is so entrenched in the pro print market, those are the ones barking about new Mac's not being able to restart completely in 9. No Quark in sight for X and apparently it doesn't run well in Classic.

Hey, but at least Quark runs in Classic. Us PT users have been waiting for almost 2 years for PT 6....but we see the light!
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