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Get It While It's Useless (8/21/01)
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Heads up, compulsive updaters: according to The M@d H@tter (we swear, that boy never sleeps), Apple has finally quietly released Mac OS 9.2.1 to the unwashed masses. Yes, no longer must you hock your grandmother's jewelry to buy a new iMac or Quicksilver Power Mac just to break the long-standing 9.1 barrier, nor must you warp straight into Mac OS X and give up speed and compatibility; 9.2.1 can now be yours for the downloading. Knock yourself out.
Or, uh, don't. So far, our every effort to get an actual 9.2.1 download going has proved utterly fruitless; chalk it up to the usual culprit of server overload, we assume. And that's just as well, in our case, because it was during the calming lull of waiting for our browser to spit back its thirtieth "socket not connected" error that we suddenly had an epiphany: we can't for the life of us remember why we should want 9.2.1 in the first place. (Other than the fact that it's ".1.1 better," that is.) So we tooled on over to MacFixit, who, true to form, had at least a little more info on what we could expect-- specifically, that the 9.2.1 updater is a gut-wrenching 82 MB download. What we don't see is any indication of what, exactly, we get in that 82 MB worth of stuff. But it's gotta be good, right?
Well, eventually we found something resembling an answer over in MacFixit's forums; reportedly Mac OS 9.2 "offers no new features," and primarily adds "compatibility changes for new Macs and OS X 10.1." We assume that 9.2.1 is pretty much the same deal. So in other words, you can probably rest your clicking finger and wait for the heat to die down a little, because unless you're already running 9.2 on an extremely new Mac, we can't imagine that you're going to benefit much from updating right away. But if the thought of running an OS version that isn't the freshest possible release gives you dry mouth and hives, good luck and may the bandwidth fairies bless your connection.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 8/21/01 episode: August 21, 2001: Steve Jobs drives a dagger through our hearts by pre-announcing that there will be no new hardware at the Apple Expo in Paris next month. Meanwhile, a $50-off coupon from the Apple Store gives us faint hope that we'll see new toys before the Expo, and the long-awaited Mac OS 9.2.1 is finally here! Now, why did we want it, again?...
Other scenes from that episode: 3254: It's Over Before It Started (8/21/01) Well, what we have here is your classic "good news, bad news" type of situation. So which do you want first? (This is the part where everyone in the viewing audience says in unison, "Why, we'd like the good news first, please, o Exalted Ones."... 3255: We Are Cooler Than You (8/21/01) Well, lookee what we found in our inbox this morning: an email coupon from the Apple Store! That's right, kids; because we're such big important soap opera producers and we have massive amounts of clout and pull in the Mac community, Apple has seen fit to suck up to us in a huge way by offering us fifty bucks off our next Apple Store purchase of $999 or more...
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