Good idea!
However she really seems to like 8.1. She finds the newer OS's to be just too complicated. And indeed heaven for her would be (if it was possible) running 7.1 on her iMac. There were an awful lot of people who were originally drawn to the Mac for it's simplicity and she is one of them. So to go to a more complicated OS goes against the reason for having a Mac in the first place. Another consideration is that the USB flakiness I hear about is a problem created by Apple. Why should she have to pay to fix Apple's engineering mistakes? By rights they should just give her the update. >Maybe someone on the list would have an 8.6 or 9.1 disk they would donate >to her? >(You can buy one on ebay for probably less than $35, so not that >expensive, though >it could be too much for a low-income person). -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | PowerON Computer Services <http://www.poweron.com> REPLACEMENT PARTS in STOCK Drives, CD-ROMs, RAM, Mac OS SW, Power Supply <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
