Mac UB standalones and OS versions

[Jeff Reynolds]

You got it... basically what you have to deal with are these  
roadblocks to upgrades

-  cost of OS upgrade

-  having someone who will install it (k-6 teachers tend not to like  
to poke at their computers and many schools have no tech support or  
one guy  in the whole district to do it all, ill see you next month)

-  cost of ram and hard drive that may be needed by older computer

-  fear that older computers cant hack running the newer os (not  
usually true, but no one wants to spend the money and have to explain  
if the computer now runs slower...)

-  fear of older software not working on newer system (usually not a  
problem, but a strong fear anyway)

-  strong fear computer might die in an upgrade (not rational, but  
its there, backs into if it aint broke dont fix it)

i cant get publishers to take software that only requires recent oses  
as it narrows the market way too much to make a profit for them.

I cant afford the full testing company for a full os matrix test,  
usually can just get the biggies with the testing system i have in  
place (moonlighter at an ed testing company


Jeffrey Reynolds
6620 Michaels Dr.
Bethesda, MD  20817
301.469.8562
jeff at siphonophore.com



On Jun 4, 2007, at 9:17 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> Simple logic really. If it ain't broke, don't mess with it.
>
> If the schools/mums aren't buying the kids new software what possible
> advantage could running upgrades do?
>
> Assuming that everything is running fine now, doing an OS upgrade,  
> at best
> will require you to upgrade a host of software/drivers. If you  
> lucky you'll
> just get away with the time it takes, more likely you'll have to  
> fork over
> cash (which the schools aren't going to do) to upgrade at least one  
> piece of
> software that is now no longer compatible. At worst you'll also be  
> up for
> more ram :-(