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I don't why I feel compelled to waste my time trying to help defend this platform against all this ignorance, but I do.
Once again you distort what was actually said to fit your BS.
"The guy points out to you, directly, that OSX wouldn't work on his machine. You didn't even dispute that contention"
No, he did NOT say it wouldn't work on his machine. He said it worked sluggishly, which was agreed. The first version of OSX was sluggish on that previous-generation iMac, but not bad at all on the generation of iMacs that were shipped in early 2001 just prior to the OSX release. Was it slow? Yes to a degree depending on your rig. Slow to the point of being inoperable, absolutely not unless you either 1) didn't have enough RAM, 2) were on a much older G3, 3) had your rig bogged down with too much crap. What, do you want someone to call the first release of OSX a failure? It surely was not.
"Your solution was, apparently, that he should have stopped using his computer entirely for what? A year? Until Apple fixed OSX so it would be adequate for his machine?
Apparent only to you, obviously. The solution offered was NOT to stop using his computer. It was to stick with 9.1 until OS X was updated to work efficiently on that rig. You know what? It was updated in less than a month. And Apple also offered OS 9.2 for those who were having problems with the transition or needed a more stable Classic environment under OS X. There were plenty of options that were just flat ignored and used as cannon fodder by the OP.
And lay off with this crap about Apple users not admitting flaws with Apple. There have been plenty of Apple users publicly unhappy with the iPhone, the reduced price of the iPhone, the battery issues on the iPod, the toilet-seat clamshell iBook, the battery issue on the TiBook, the one-button mouse just to name a few. Of course you choose to ignore that to further your BS.
