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"You miss the point of the original post."
Right. The point of the original post was that he was "embarrassed" in front of his Windows-using relatives. And that he wanted to type the word WINDBOZE in all caps several times. I don't think we missed anything.
Two generations back for Windows OS, and two generations back for Mac OS.
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No the point was Apple COULD have made it less restrictive; they didn't!
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> and two generations back for Mac OS.
Current generation = 10.5
One generation back = 10.4
Two generations back = 10.3
You meant to say "one generation back for Mac OS". If it was actually two generations back, this thread would not exist.
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Really sucks when you're hanging on with OS 6.0.8 and hoping they'll keep the promise about free upgrades forever, as long as you're faithful.
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[quote RgrF]No the point was Apple COULD have made it less restrictive; they didn't!
Exactly.
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Last year at this time it was around $85.
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Yeah actually, I agree the requirements probably shouldn't be so stringent, but why not read the requirements of what you are buying? Why do consumers think that they should be able to not even read the box and/or online product description and then be frustrated when it doesn't do what it says it won't do. Again, I bought a non-Apple digital audio player and it listed Mac OS 9 support on the box. Guess what, it needed Mac OS X to run. So, this is not just an Apple thing. At least Apple was up front that they may be intentionally screwing you, Cowon (the company who made my other DAP) was not.
To be fair to Apple, they do support two revisions of Mac OS X and two revisions of Windows. If Vista had come out around 2004/2005 as planned and MS was revving up their next OS release for late 2008, I bet you would see XP support likewise disappear.
Tiger will cost less than $50 and is a better operating system than Panther. Even before I migrated to a MacBook Core 2 Duo running Tiger, I had also recently made the leap to Tiger on my old iMac G3. I felt like Tiger was a nice improvement over Panther and made my iMac feel like a new machine...until it died two months later. Not related to the upgrade I don't think, the CRT simply became too dim to remain as one of my two primary computers.
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Just before Xmess, I looked into this stuff for a client, who is using an old G4/400 and 10.3.9. She wanted an iPod and was being told by sales people that she had to get Leopard (I know they told her that that because they don't sell Tiger anymore, but it's ridiculous and sleazy of them to pitch Leopard given the age of her system). This client has no need for a new computer OR Tiger, let alone Leopard (which wouldn't even run on her machine AFAIK).
I pointed her toward refurb previous-generation iPods at the Apple Store. They work with 10.3.9. Maybe you can return the one you got and get one of those instead.
I am not happy about the minimum requirements for the new ones. But it sounds like you're stuck with either getting Tiger on eBay or returning the iPod.
