Geoff Welsh wrote:
Rufus wrote:
I read someplace not long ago that 10.6.8 is headed to becoming the "XP"
of the Apple world...and I don't doubt it.
as someone who has only ever owned Macs....
ummm, Rufus, what does that mean?
GW
8.6-->10.3-->10.4-->10.6
Heh...you sound like me. But I do get forced to use Windows at
work...and even then, not the latest most current version of Widows at that.
I guess that there are a lot of PC users - gamers, hobbists, DIY-ers,
biz users - that still use Windows XP even though it's wished to be
extinct (being 2001 vintage, and supposedly "less than fully supported"
now). Partly because what they want to do is supported by XP, partly
because of the simplicity of XP, the inertia of biz adoption, etc.
The 10.6.8 = XP conjecture stems from what I was saying - that as more
of the PPC machines truly become non-viable people whom wish to maintain
the "desktop" feel vice the increasing iOS slant of the latest OS X
versions (re: Lanchpad, touch gestures, no scroll arrows, etc.) will
likely not upgrade their OS and may even "downgrade" their new machines
to SnoLep - 10.6.8. The article I was reading was looking at sales
figures for Lion and Mountain Lion vs the number of Macs out there in
the user base and found that the adoption rates aren't actually as high
as anyone - including Apple - might like or think.
Personally, I have a new Mac Mini that came with Lion, but I haven't
installed Mountain Lion on it and probably won't. My 24" iMac and
Macbook Pro both run SnoLep and I am very happy letting them continue to
do so. I know that I'm perfectly happy with 10.6.8 and have seen zero
reason to upgrade my capable Intel based Macs to Lion or beyond, so I'm
one of the users this article was talking about. You may be as well,
unless you buy a new machine.
I also have a 20" G5 PPC iMac that runs 10.5.8, and had I known in
advance that I was going to lose Classic support I wouldn't have
upgraded it from Tiger; and I have a G4 Sawtooth still running Tiger as
a perfectly viable machine with an OS 9 install for dual/selective boot
ability.
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- Rufus
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