7 May
1998
7 May
'98
12:27 p.m.
If this new Mac has no removeable media, what happens when the hard
drive breaks? How do you re-install the OS? Off the net? Catch-22, OS
isn't running, no TCP/IP stack. Off the USB? OK, then the boot ROM
supports bootable media from the USB? I'm impressed, even PCs don't
support that. And the removeable media of choice for the USB is? No
wait, let me guess, a scanner...you load the OS by scanning in bar codes
which contain the OS binaries. That would be, oh, about 100K pages to
scan in? Or you just send the whole thing back to Apple, and if they
have spares, and they are still in business, they send you back a nice
new pre-installed disk, sans all the software and setup you had on it.
Then you restore off the net, but uh oh, all you have is a 28.8Kb
connection, and 400MB of backup.
Good plan, system administrators will love this machine. No doubt
corporate types will beat down Apple's door to buy it.
Jack Peacock
7 May
7 May
2:49 p.m.
If this new Mac has no removeable media, what happens
when the hard
drive breaks? How do you re-install the OS? Off the net? Catch-22, OS
isn't running, no TCP/IP stack. Off the USB? OK, then the boot ROM
supports bootable media from the USB? I'm impressed, even PCs don't
Guess again, you drop the CD in the CD-ROM drive and boot off the CD.
Furthermore, if it's attached to a network with a Rhapsody server, you
should be able to netboot it from the server.
Your sarcasm is uncalled for, have you ever even used a Mac, or at least a
modern one?
As for the floppy drive question, it doesn't need it, but Apple apparently
has a USB based floppy in the works.
Personally it looks like a pretty good little machine for it's intended
target. The only thing about it that I think is a mistake is it's lack of
an external SCSI port.
Zane
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8 May
8 May
1:06 p.m.
Jack Peacock wrote:
If this new Mac has no removeable media, what happens when the hard
drive breaks? How do you re-install the OS? Off the net? Catch-22, OS
isn't running, no TCP/IP stack. Off the USB? OK, then the boot ROM
supports bootable media from the USB?
Bootable CD-ROM, of course, which Macs have had for a while.
I presume the system, like the Performas et al., will come with a
bootable
CD which can be used to restore the system to "factory" condition.
<<<john>>>
2:28 p.m.
John Ruschmeyer wrote:
Jack Peacock wrote:
And there went everything that was put on the disk after it left
the factory. I'd have thought Jobs might have learned his lesson
after the NeXT cube's fiasco in its original release -- or does he
think that's just because the market wasn't ready for a machine
with no safe (offline) storage then? but it is now?
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
If this new Mac has no removeable media, what happens when the hard
drive breaks? How do you re-install the OS? Off the net? Catch-22, OS
isn't running, no TCP/IP stack. Off the USB? OK, then the boot ROM
supports bootable media from the USB?
Bootable CD-ROM, of course, which Macs have had for a while.
I presume the system, like the Performas et al., will come with a
bootable
CD which can be used to restore the system to "factory" condition.
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