Sonnet today posted its $30 OS X solution for Crescendo/PCI 1.0 software for its processor upgrades, which "enables your PCI computer upgraded with any Sonnet Crescendo/PCI G3/G4 processor card to use Mac OS X."
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Let me get this straight: "That's *ALL* they did?"
If what Ryan did was so easy, he should have packaged a solution (and still can) for $15 for the *millions* of pre-G3 Macs being used in professional institutions who will not move to X without a *simplified* installation, and thus undercut Sonnet and still make a killing.
Should Sonnet charge $30, when they had previously led everyone to believe they would support it as part of an upgrade purchase? I don't know. I think they know that the market is already saturated, very few new upgrades will be sold (compared to past years), and this is just a way they can (and will) make a nice profit in a slumping industry that already killed several other (poorly run) upgrade companies, including the grandaddy of them all (NewerTech).
Ah, Capitalism. The freedom to make money in a market that is identified. What a concept.
Frederico
X installer patches, free or not, will only work on a 'case by case' basis. I have a 9600 with a Sonnet card and cannot get either patch (Sonnet's or Ryan's) to work . You get what you pay for -- or not.
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And that's what they call "supporting older Macs"?
All they did is simplify the installation process of Ryan Rempel. They did not even add support for USB cards on pre-G3 Macs under OS X.
It took them three months to do what Ryan did in a day.
What a joke!