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You're right and you're wrong. In my experience, you're right to recommend a fresh installation of a significant OSX change, rather than just an in-place upgra
by telemachos 17y ago
You're right and you're wrong.
In my experience, you're right to recommend a fresh installation of a significant OSX change, rather than just an in-place upgrade.
However, Apple goes out of their way to say that you should be able to upgrade in-place. And, in general, users want to be able to upgrade in place. It's a reasonable thing to want since it will take at least some time to reimport your data, applications, settings and so on.
So, it's a bit much to call people lazy for doing what the manufacturer promises you can do.
- petercooper 17y agoWell, yes, you're right - they say you should be able to do it. In my experience with Leopard and Snow Leopard, however, I don't think Apple's QA is good enough for them to be confidently recommending this course of action. On the plus side, at least once you're set up, you can stick with it forever and a day. Back in the Windows 98 era, you pretty much had to reinstall the same OS fresh every year or go insane ;-)