[adagio]

I am happy to see OS 9 go the way of the dinosaurs

AMEN!!

If you absolutely need OS9 then have it on a separate drive/partition like I do. (hubby needs it).
I can't imagine anyone wanting to stick with that old thing.

 

[adagio]

Looking at the big picture.. What percentage of mac users absolutely have to have OS9?
I'm betting it's fairly small.

I work with both photoshop and Painter (which is very CPU intensive) in OSX and can find little difference in speed now than when I was using OS9 and I only have a G4/400. Most of the nonsense of OSX being slow goes back to the 10.1 days. It's come a long way since then.

I believe most of the reluctance to move on is either the person is too cheap or too scared to learn something new!