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Sorry, but this is the kind of thing that prompts responses:
"My computer before that was a shiny iMac (snow) with MacOS 9.1."
"My iMac before that was $2000."
The snow iMac sold for $1500. If you paid $2000 for it, it wasn't Apple's fault.
"my *new* iMac couldn't run it except under incredibly clunky (unusable) speeds."
The first version of OS X was slow and clunky on everything.
"So I went back to 9.1. For which Apple made no other program upgrades ever"
Yeah, and? I used OS 8.6 on a first-generation iMac until 2004. You could have used your snow iMac and 9.1 at least that long.
"to run OSX, you needed - surprise - a new computer."
No, you just needed patience. Lots of people have successfully installed and run later versions of OS X on machines like yours. Just search for G3 iMacs being sold on Craigslist--they're all running OS X.
"Apple has built in obsolescence, snazzy design, and marketing as it's foundations for profit. NOT long term usability."
Like I said, I used my 1998 iMac for 6 years. You must have also missed the other letters from people who've had their Macs for a long time.
Again, I'm not telling anyone to buy a Mac. But the rampant mis- and disinformation spread about them gets tiresome.
