On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:20 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > Like, say, Apple? Or are all those OS upgrades (10.1/2/3/4/5/6) free?
I suppose the major Windows upgrades (95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7) have all been free, eh? > I'm firmly in the camp that says once you've got a system runnning, > don't mess with it (also know as "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"). I agree with this, in general. The major reason to upgrade is to take advantage of new features that are useful and/or bring compatibility to new applications that were written using new OS facilities. Since I tend to buy "at the trailing edge" of new (I bought my PowerPC update systems, G5 and PowerBook, after I knew the world was switching to Intel because they were absolutely stable and I figured I'd get 3-4 years use before moving to the new hardware/software, which is *exactly* the way it's playing out), and use my system extensively, I get plenty of value out of what I buy. Upgrading to Leopard has netted large advances in functionality. Snow Leopard is no longer compatible with PowerPC systems ... I know exactly why and laud them for finally doing some of the things that needed doing but could not be done almost a decade ago when I helped launch Mac OS X. Now I'll move to new hardware, soon as I've vetted that everything I need is there and the new core bits do what I need. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
