Apple forced to refund cost of Mac OS X to G3 users
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Everybody's favorite tech exaggerator was slapped down by the Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles this week and forced to refund the cost of Mac OS X to disgruntled users. The problem? Apple claimed in its early OS X advertising that the product was "fully optimized" for the aging G3 processor, which it most certainly wasn't. Then the company went and added a bunch of features that only work with the faster G4 chip. One class action lawsuit later and California consumers who feel they've been ripped off by Apple can get a nice little $129 refund. This isn't the first time Apple's been taken to court for its frequent indiscretions with reality, and shareholders have sued the company at least twice for overstating the performance of its systems.