On Dec 22, 2011, at 11:53 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: > A lot less so than microsoft. The first OS I can't run on my Core Duo mac > mini is Lion. I believe it had 10.4 when it came out. So the 10.5 and 10.6 > upgrades were all good to go. That is more than every other, and is a long > period of time. I bought the Mac Mini around May 2006. So it was able to be > upgraded a good 5 years and a few months and is still a great machine with > 10.6.x on it and should last my MIL a few more years at least. I consider > that good value and better than MS, where the HW specs seem to jump an order > of magnitude with each OS release. > > My Core 2 Duo MBP I got end of 2007 runs Lion as does the 2008 MacBook and I > expect to get many more years out of them. My main machine, Mac Pro from > mid 2008 should be a great and powerful machine for years to come, even > though it will be 4 years old soon.
How many Windows XP machines were upgradeable to Windows 7, not counting the ones they were still selling 10 years after XP was released because of how bad Vista performed in the marketplace. Heck, the G4 iMac I gave my inlaws that's I don't know how old now still runs pretty fast. The Dell XP machine sitting next to it is unusable these days. >> Where I think the government is a fail: Why is any corporation lock-in >> allowed, given that it restricts consumers, and at face seems to >> violate various anti-trust/anti-monopoly/free competition laws on the >> books? > > Lock-in? Exactly what are you talking about? Are you whining that Apple > controls the OS? Any OS you choose will have "lock-in" of some sort. You realize most of us buy Apple BECAUSE of the "lock in", or as I call it, tightly integrated hardware and software. That said, all Macs run Windows really well, and Linux for that matter. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
