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As a long time PC user I bit the bullet about 5 years ago and bought a Mac. I was very familiar with PC's and a long-time linux user. I figured it was unix-base
by logicalmind 17y ago
As a long time PC user I bit the bullet about 5 years ago and bought a Mac. I was very familiar with PC's and a long-time linux user. I figured it was unix-based and had a nice UI. I didn't have any serious problems like the author of this post, but my major gripe was the continuous cost of OS upgrades. It seemed like every year you had to pay another $100+ for panther/leopard/etc. When I began refusing to do this and stay at the level I was at, programs stopped working. At least if you buy window XP you can run that software for the life of the machine. I haven't paid for the upgrades to my OS in a couple of years and now any software you try to install fails to run because my OS libs are out of date.
- stuff4ben 17y agoSoftware doesn't just stop working because you refused to upgrade your OS. Likely what happened is that you upgraded your software not realizing that the newer version requires a newer OS. That's your fault for not reading the requirements. I've been on 10.4 Tiger since I bought my MBP back in 2006 and haven't had any existing software "stop working" because I didn't upgrade to Leopard. 3 years on an OS and it still works like the day I bought it. Still haven't reinstalled the OS which was a biannual thing with Windows.
- logicalmind 17y agoWhat browser do you use that is current and works on an old version of OSX?
- intranation 17y agoOS upgrades on OS X aren't analogous with with service packs or similar though--Service Packs have very rarely, in my experience, offered the kinds of feature upgrades that OS X upgrades do. There's not really an equivalent in Windows XP.