FilledVoid
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Apple then released Mac OS X 10.1 a year later as a major update (more than a service pack, less than a complete overhaul) that didn’t bring in any fancy new features but added a boatload of improvements all over the system and made Mac OS X usable
I definitely understand this one. I wouldn't mind purchasing something if it came with Major Updates or huge performance gains. Giving that for free is definitely nice also. But I wouldn't mind the investment either.
Since Apple already set that precedent, there is now the possibility that Snow Leopard might be a free upgrade.
Now this makes absolute sense. I'm pretty sure it would only please the customer base that Apple has already by another free update . They could always charge for a new OS when they come out with something innovative and I'm sure the community would be thrilled with it .
However, there’s also the very real (and more likely) possibility that Apple might charge for it, but an amount much less than what they do for a full blown upgrade with major new features ($129). Macworld editors have guestimated that it will be around $30. The Apple of 2002 was much different from the Apple of 2008, so I don’t think a free update is on the cards.
Would you get it based on the facts on the table which are near to nil considering that the dev's have signed a NDA and hence theres nothing on paper as a fact. Other than the fact that its better optimized and future innovations will make use of this platform and might actually charge you for a new release then also. For this lets look at an example. Would you upgrade with the current information on the table or preferraby wait till someone has tested it and confirmed some noticeable gains for the money? But then again its way too early to guesstimate that. I've always noticed that Apple has an Ace up its sleeve when the time comes to its products.
However what I would like to really know is that whether all the Mac users on this board actually upgrade onces a new product hits the shelf or is there someone who actually is satisifed with the old product they are using?
The other thing you offhandedly threw in was that it was “lousy coding” on their part. I don’t know whether you have used Mac OS X or not but anyone who has can clearly and categorically state that it’s not the result of lousy coding. Lousy coding does not result in something so terrific.
Basic use yes. Nothing to be proud of . Although the missing mouse button just freaks e out .Im not saying that they actually threw in random bits of code from every other place and stitched it up together.Hell no. That would be quite a silly on my part. But rather stating that they are releasing a product to optimze an older product.
Or in other words we did release an OS which could have worked much more efficiently. But Guess what.. Its your lucky day. We are coming out with an update which will make your computer as fast as a ferrari (if not more) and its only coming out at $30. Not to mention that it sort of states that the OS you are using is quite inefficient?
Now that Mac OS X has established itself as a force to be reckoned with, someone needed to take a bold step and do away with everything that’s holding it back to prepare it for even more drastic enhancements in future.
True. But Vista sort of released itself with the same attitude or at least thats what I understand from gx's posts about Windows each time he talks about Vista. Noentheless I'm thinking that a good portion of the users feel alienated in some way because of it. However the future will tell I guess. Something tells me by SP2 Vista will probably be wehre XP SP2 is .
Fire away with any more questions you have (though don’t become too technical )
I'm the last person who is technical about anything . I really don't care about whether someone is running Apple, Linux or Windows. Although I do see myself buying one of the Macbooks and somehow getting Linux/Mac OS (not even sure if dual booting works on it) and before everyone stones me to death may I answer the question. "But Why? Why on earth would you install Ubuntu on a MacBook?" .
Because I can. Oh and I need a new laptop which looks nice
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