Apple reveals G5 teething problems

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
Apple has published information detailing a list of support issues affecting G5 Power Macs, confirming that no version of Mac OS X Server is currently supported on the machines.

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"The Power Mac G5 computer is not supported for use with any version of Mac OS X Server 10.2, or any earlier version of Mac OS X Server. Mac OS X Server 10.3 will be supported on Power Mac G5 computers."

"Power Mac G5 computers require Mac OS X 10.2.7 (G5), which is made specifically for this computer. Mac OS X 10.2.7 (G5) cannot be installed on other computers, and other versions of Mac OS X 10.2 (both server and client) cannot be installed on the Power Mac G5 computer."

The full report:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6840

Related News:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=6795

Comments

  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2003
    Hey, spend way too much for a computer, then sink more money into software. It's the Apple way...

    Good thing they're so easy to use right out of the box!;D
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    MAC has Servers?!?! Damn they must not be anygood if I aint ever heard of them. I haven't ever even thought of those 2 words together before... Mac.... Server?
  • TobinTobin Philadelphia, PA
    edited September 2003
    Actually, my school district back home once used an iMac as a district-wide fileserver. Then a new group of tech support staff came in and nearly had a stroke when they saw it. They're still using Mac servers, but actual servers now, not a lonely little blueberry iMac sitting in a utility closet.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2003
    Tobin said
    Actually, my school district back home once used an iMac as a district-wide fileserver. Then a new group of tech support staff came in and nearly had a stroke when they saw it. They're still using Mac servers, but actual servers now, not a lonely little blueberry iMac sitting in a utility closet.
    That's the age-old thing about Mac's. They deserve credit for doing a fine job of convincing school systems that Mac was the way to go.
    I'll bet that "blueberry" color made a big difference in perception, if not performance... :tongue:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    If insurance companies taught us anything worth remembering, it's that colors mean things go faster. :rolleyes2
  • TobinTobin Philadelphia, PA
    edited September 2003
    profdlp said
    Tobin said
    I'll bet that "blueberry" color made a big difference in perception, if not performance... :tongue:

    Yeah, I've found that there are two types of Mac users: those who actually know what they're doing and those who buy it because of the pretty colors. I can't say I like the last type... they make the rest of us look bad. ;)
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    RWB:

    Apple has a line of actually very excellent servers. They are very powerful 1U rackmount boxes called the XServe, but they are a bit pricey (surprise)

    www.apple.com/xserve/
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2003
    primesuspect said
    RWB:

    Apple has a line of actually very excellent servers. They are very powerful 1U rackmount boxes called the XServe, but they are a bit pricey (surprise)

    www.apple.com/xserve/
    No surprise. Apple does a good job at what it wishes to do.

    "Value" is not one of the things they are interested in. This is going to border on the political (and I will not respond to rebuttals here), but I think the chief reason for their survival is due to the fact that so much spending on "Education" is controlled by bureaucracy.

    They wiped our nose, let's wipe theirs.:rolleyes2
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    Doesn't it seem like that everytime you would have to get a new Apple computer, or even upgrade it, you have to buy a new OS. The old OS won't run on the new hardware at all.:scratch:
    Actually, my school district back home once used an iMac as a district-wide fileserver. Then a new group of tech support staff came in and nearly had a stroke when they saw it. They're still using Mac servers, but actual servers now, not a lonely little blueberry iMac sitting in a utility closet

    How did they manage that, to make it a server?
  • TobinTobin Philadelphia, PA
    edited September 2003
    danball1976 said
    Doesn't it seem like that everytime you would have to get a new Apple computer, or even upgrade it, you have to buy a new OS. The old OS won't run on the new hardware at all.:scratch:

    I'm not sure what you mean... yes, there was the major rehaul that went along with OS X (a much-needed change, IMHO). But to my knowledge the classic MacOS will run on any PowerPC up to G4, and OS X runs on anything from the Beige G3s up.

    I have an ancient (10+ years old) Mac SE at home that will run up to OS 7.5, and both my PowerMac 7200 (about 5 years old) and my PowerBook G4 (2 years old this summer) could run OS 7.5 with the correct extensions (drivers in Windows-language).

    If you have information contrary to what I just said, I'd like to see it. I like to think I'm knowledgable about Macs, but I'm not the World Authority on them either.
    How did they manage that, to make it a server?

    It was used as a fileserver, so they just set up shared directories, like you can in Windows. Until recently the district was entirely Macintosh, so there wasn't a cross-platform issue.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2003
    As you can tell, I know nothing about Mac's
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