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I think the price definitely helps, but Apple has made it so easy to upgrade OSes and it's paying off.
by nextstep 13y ago
I think the price definitely helps, but Apple has made it so easy to upgrade OSes and it's paying off.
- k-mcgrady 13y ago>> "Apple has made it so easy to upgrade OSes" I think this is the key. Last night it took only a few clicks to download and install Mavericks. I walked away, came back a couple of hours later and it was finished. My stuff was exactly where I left it. When I used Windows only crazy people upgraded. Most people did a clean install of the OS then spent days reinstalling software and putting files back where they were supposed to be. I would have to wait until I had a few days free to make sure it didn't affect my work.
- Samuel_Michon 13y ago> I walked away, came back a couple of hours later and it was finished. FWIW, yesterday I installed Mavericks on two Macs. On a Late 2009 Mac mini, the installation process took 40 minutes (upgrade from Mountain Lion). On a Mid 2012 MacBook Air, the installation process took 30 minutes (upgrade from Mountain Lion).
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI'm using a late 2011 MacBook Pro and it took about 60mins - but then it stuck on 'one minute remaining' for another 45mins. Still, I can't complain that's still pretty impressive imho.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoNowadays Windows upgrades are much easier than all that. Mac OS X may still be better (haven't had to perform an upgrade myself since 10.6, since I turned in my work MBP for a Linux laptop), but Windows ain't bad compared to the old days, recent bricking issues aside.