John Ruschmeyer wrote:
>
> 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.
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_
Received on Fri May 08 1998 - 21:28:57 BST