POWERtools has this to say:"PowerTools announced today that they will be the first Mac clone vendor to ship MacOS 8.0. B

POWERtools has this to say:

"PowerTools announced today that they will be the first Mac clone vendor to ship MacOS 8.0. Beginning on September 8, 1997, PowerTools will include MacOS 8.0 with every infiniti T2 MacOS clone that it ships. Each infiniti T2 will also have a full 1 year on-site warranty provided by a national third party service provider and free (800) technical support.

The standard configuration for the newly released infiniti T2 systems is as follows:

604e/200MHz PPC, 50Mhz Bus, Mini-Tower, 5 PCI, 8 Drive bays, 3D graphics 32MB/3.2GB/16x/512k/2vram/4MB video card/video in-out/TV tuner/KB/MacOS8.0/1 yr.-on-site

This is in response to the current changes by Apple concerning the licensing of MacOS 8. "Although the price for the infiniti T2 is slightly higher," says Victor Wong, CEO of PowerTools,"we feel that it is necessary to provide the latest version of the MacOS for our valued customers. If along the way it helps to make Apple profitable once again, then to us it is a win-win situation. However, we are providing much more value than the bump in price for MacOS 8.0, we are guaranteeing that your new computer will have solid service and technical support. "

Due to the questions that are now circulating concerning MacOS licensing, these additional assurances are necessary. "PowerTools still retains every single license that it had when it started. We are still shipping, we are still developing new systems, and our contract says that we have at least four more years to do so." states Wong, "We're already planning our New Years Party for the year 2000."

Although many think that MacOS licensing may be over, Wong states the following, "Apple has said that MacOS licensing is not over, it just has to be different. This is a game and the rules change from time to time. It may not always be fair, but you have to change with it. You cannot fight against the ocean tides, but you can learn to swim with dignity. We've got our swimming shorts on."

Virtual PC CD Mount Problem: While working with Virtual PC on my PowerBase 180, I couldn't get the Phillips CD-ROM drive (a SCSI) to mount the Lotus cc:Mail v6.1 CD on either setting in VPC. I switched to Apple CD-ROM v5.3.1 (the driver that came with Mac OS 7.6) from FWB CD ROM ToolKit v2.5.1. and that didn't help at first. Then I mounted the CD while in Mac OS 8 and launched Virtual PC and there it was--I repeated this with several other CDs. There's my workaround for this unreported (acccording to the Connectix tech) problem.