As the Apple Turns: Scene 827: Business As Usual (7/2/98)

Business As Usual (7/2/98)

Problems continue as expected with Microsoft's Windows 98 upgrade. Several big PC manufacturers are now advising customers to hold off on upgrading from Windows 95 until fixes can be created and released. PC Week Online has more details on the warnings that have been posted on the companies' web sites.

For instance, Toshiba has told owners of laptop computers that are "advanced configuration power interface enabled" not to upgrade to Windows 98, though PC Week doesn't state what consequences users would face by attempting the upgrade. (Laptop Flambé, á la PowerBook 5300?) Owners of those specific Toshiba models are supposed to wait until the company completes patches for the system BIOS and new drivers. Dell has posted similar warnings to users of its Latitude corporate laptop systems; as-yet-unavailable patches and new drivers are required before Windows 98 is usable, and they've already posted modem driver and video patches to alleviate problems on other systems. And Compaq has posted an "extensive list" of possible problems that users of its systems may encounter upon upgrading.

Oy vey... Wanna know when the real end will come for the Macintosh platform? It'll be when Apple tells its customers that owners of revision C iMac3's must download and apply update 1.75 of the Columbus2 BIOS and set jumpers 2 and 4 on the ATA controller board before upgrading to Mac OS X.61. If that's the future, we're happy sticking around here in 1998, thank you very much. Fight the future. ;-)

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The above scene was taken from the 7/2/98 episode:

July 2, 1998: Some film has been uncovered which proves once and for all the presence of a diabolical coverup regarding the iMac's mouse. Meanwhile, Apple's state in the retail marketplace continues to improve, and Windows 98 is still a headache to owners and manufacturers of certain computers...

Other scenes from that episode:

825: Light-Up Conspiracy (7/2/98) See, people frequently tell us here at AtAT that we are too paranoid, that there aren't any conspiracies in Cupertino, and that we should really switch to decaf. To those people, we collectively state the following: the AtAT team has been caffeine-free for a long time now, ever since Microsoft covertly bribed their fellow Washingtonian monopolizer Starbucks to spike the U.S...
826: More Good News (7/2/98) The upswing continues slowly but surely; Apple's sales appear to be increasing, and its market share is reportedly still creeping upward. So sayeth Computer Retail Week, who indicates that Apple's "radical realignment of its consumer strategy last November" is paying off...

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