[schuey100]

Er...got my 17" today and noticed that there was an OS9 system folder on the drive. Slightly confused I went to system preferences to see if classic was installed. I was amazed, it was. I promptly started up classic and loaded up some OS9 apps. They worked.

I was a little suprised as I was sure that it was not possible to load OS9 apps on the Albook???

So, do I have some kind of freakish Al or is this normal. more to the point, what's the best way to get rid of it? Can I just delete OS9 system folder and OS9 applications folder?

Thanks

Schuey

[tanhauser]

It is perfectly normal. All current Macs running OS X can launch Classic (OS 9) apps, what the new AlBooks can not do is boot from OS 9.

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[gururafiki]

Yeah, when reading all the posts about os9 not bootable on the new powerbooks, I got a bit confused about os9 apps working/not working. Finding out they did work made me very happy! Almost sold all my os9 apps!

[AssassyN]

Yeppers, not being able to "boot" into OS 9 certainly doesn't mean you can't run OS 9 apps. through "Classic". Pretty nifty feature actually...I just wonder how long Classic will continue to be included in OS X, and if 10.3 will have it.

[jtbowden]

What's really amazing is that Classic loads in about 5 seconds on my AlBook, whereas on my Pismo it took about 60 seconds. That is quite an improvement!