AW: OT: I want to buy Lion

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 07/28/2011 08:02 PM, Pete Haworth wrote:
> This is not about people who do not want to upgrade, it's about people who
> do want to upgrade, are willing to pay, need to support the users of their
> applications, but cannot because of Apple's upgrade methodology.  Sounds
> like they will provide a "hard copy" method to upgrade eventually.
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> Pete
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I don't know what is wrong with me; but reading this thread I really do 
want to get back to a very nice All-In-One Performa, running Mac OS 8.6 
that currently is "resting" in my attic in my house in Scotland.

I think of Mac OS 8.5 - 9.2.2, and 10.3 - 10.5 as really rather good, 
insofar as one could do a myriad of things without too much bother 
(especially when I remember I did my whole Windows-based MSc course work 
on 10.3 with Windows XP running in Virtual PC).

I am well aware that 10.0 to 10.2 were intermediate builds, which apple, 
naughtily charged people for; let's hope "Lion" is the same sort of 
thing, and they don't manage to lose loads of customers before they 
produce some sort of mature "Mac OS XI".

I think that Apple are digging themselves a hole. Microsoft, for all 
their many, manifest sins, have tried their best re backwards 
compatibility so that an OS upgrade doesn't necessarily entail thousands 
of bucks, quid, euros, ,  or whatever in ancilliary upgrades.

Iff I buy a new mac Mini it will ONLY be for one reason; to run LiveCode 
(face it, the
Linux version still has some hiccups); all other software would be open 
source, which on the whole runs better on systems running Linux.