>It took me a long time to decide to upgrade from 4.2, since it really met >my needs. >As far as 9.1, isn't 9.2 a free upgrade?
I don't tend to migrate rapidly either (although I wouldn't mind migrating annually to the BVI). ;-) When I do migrate, the upgrade has to be a finished release with all the bugs worked out; I'm not interested in bug testing (that's what I pay my money for). No, MacOS 9.2 is not a free upgrade, to my knowledge. Only *updates* are (free) and they are labelled as such. I've never used a MacOS that was in it's initial stages, so I've gone from 7.1 to 7.6.1 to 8.1 to 9.1, skipping merrily right over all the updates that exhibited multitudes of problems and caused so many Mac users to pull their hair out in frustration. In my opinion Apple has never perfected (as far as humanly possible) OS X and I have no intention of upgrading until I'm absolutely forced to for reasons of software requirements. My wife has 10.3 on her machine and what I've seen of OS X so far (over the last couple of years) is bells and whistles with no substance. It has far less intuitive user control over interface or function, the primary reasons I've liked the Mac for the last decade. I stopped upgrading at 9.1 because the primary motivation for the design of 9.2+ was migration to OS X and there were bugs in it that were never fixed as Apple pushed OS X out the door. I'm a tool user. I perform exhaustive research prior to the purchase of the best tool I can afford to accomplish a specific task. I then take very good care of it and expect it to last until I have no more use for it. I reject the concept that I should blindly accept, for reasons of affluence or boredom or ignorance, every single software and hardware offering that the whiz kids at Apple (or anywhere else) decide they think we might want or they can persudes us we somehow can't live without. If I decide I want to acquire a tool (read - hardware, software) it's because I have a genuine requirement for the task that tool will accomplish, not a desire generated by some sales person or designer whose raison d'etre is not connected with service to my needs or providing reasonable product for compensation but instead only the golden pot at the end of the IT highway. Harumph! Have I finished ranting for the day? Sheesh! Sorry! ;-) To take myself down a couple pegs, yes, I was an AOLamer for a decade and yes, it's the tool (I use that term lightly here) which I utilized to get me connected to the Internet. It took years for me to deduce that there might be a better way. Hey, we all had to start SOMEWHERE! :) Could I blame this on Apple for including AOL connection software in my Performa 575 package? Yup! Hey; all I really wanted was a word processor! Who knew the durned thing would connect to the Internet too! By the way, anyone want to buy a perfectly good Performa 575? ;-) RC Rein Ciarfella Cape Cod Sailmakers Cape Cod Sailing Brokerage Old Valley Road/POB 3046 Waquoit, MA 02536 508-540-8264 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Do not add my email to any group. Always blind copy)
