X2000 or sue ... your comments

[spirantho]

Vox, I can understand your frustration, but blackmailing Trevor like this is definitely not the way to go.  It's never going to get the desired result and if you did sue, the only person who would win would be the lawyers.

Make the most of the X1000 you have - it's a great machine, and the best OS4 machine there is at the moment.  It's well known that not all the drivers are out of beta yet (such as the ethernet) but this sort of agressiveness will just slow things down even further.

Whatever your grievances, a public forum is not the place to do it - especially when you're openly blackmailing one of the people held in the highest regard in the whole community.

[spirantho]

Programs need to be compiled for Altivec whatever the OS. It's different code to non-Altivec. The only exception is where Altivec is used in shared libraries, but that's rare.

[spirantho]

Any court would immediately throw out the "it doesn't work on the software side" because it runs Linux perfectly well.

[spirantho]

A judge wouldn't care about that though. It runs software so it's not faulty hardware.

[spirantho]

The X1000 is a fully usable computer, the only beta drivers are not a problem because they provide add-in cards instead until the Beta drivers are complete.
3 production runs wouldn't happen on a broken business model. I only know of one person (Vox) unhappy with his x1000 out of over a hundred, and his reasoning is to do with os4, not the hardware.