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- From: altizer@iam.unibe.ch (Robert Altizer)
- Subject: Re: System 7.1 = $$$
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.145340.6043@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola SPS
- References: <1992Nov20.012130.3727@pro-freedom.cts.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:53:40 GMT
- Lines: 50
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- In article 3727@pro-freedom.cts.com, pip@pro-freedom.cts.com (David Pipgras) writes:
- >Just got and sent back System 7.1. Not worth it.
- >
- >System 7.1 requires you to upgrade virtually all your software, as most
- >things will not work properly, or are just plainly incompatible with 7.1,
- >including Publish It Easy 2.9, Illustrator 3.2, Ready,Set,Go! 4.5a,
- >HyperCard 2.1, Most CD-ROM drivers, Scanner Drivers, Monitor Drivers,
- >Printer Drivers, (all non-apple of course), MacLabelPro, After Dark, ATM
- >2.3, OnCue II, Adobe Type Reunion, Adobe Type Align, MacPaint, MacDraw...
- >
- >....And many, *MANY* more...
- >
- >
- >
- >Seems Apple does not feel $99 for the software upgrade is enough, and also
- >wants you to have to pay $$$ for third party upgrades too! Out of 50 some
- >applications on our HD, only about 12 of them were "compatible" and of
- >them, about four were only "sorta" compatible (i.e. may randomly crash....
- >
- >
- >We called several companies, and found many of them are encouraging Apple
- >(oops!) Encouraging people to tell Apple what they can do with System 7.1
- >(and I don't mean lower the price either---)
- >
- >
- >Dave
- >==============================================================
-
- Gosh Dave, maybe I'm just lucky, but I haven't had any problems with most of the
- software you mention. The only minor problem I've had is running Reflex Plus,
- which can't use 32-bit addressing, but works fine with it turned off. Maybe you
- shouldn't believe the Compatibility Checker report without testing - you may
- find, as I did, that most things work fine. Remember, the citations in
- Compatibility Checker are supplied by the software vendor and are as likely to
- be marketing/upgrade oriented as they are results of objective tests.
-
- Regards,
- Bob
-
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