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2009-09-21 22:11 UTC
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Somewhere along the way, I permanently lost the urge to stay up with the lastest software releases, and happily use older versions if they work for me and don't present any unacceptable risks.
We've got two macs at my house - a mac mini that came with Tiger and a Macbook Pro that came with Leopard. The upgrade to Leopard for the mini seemed expensive to me (was it > $100? I can't remember) and so I never considered it.
But then Jane got a statistics package called Stata that wouldn't run in Tiger. I went out and got the Snow Leopard upgrade - found out it was more like $25, and it didn't appear that you had to purchase a Leopard upgrade to get there from Tiger. Apple also sells a "family pack" or something like that, which allows you to apply it to several computers, so I got that - $42 about.
To upgrade the mini, I had to re-partition - I guess I would have had to do that to go from Tiger->Leopard? Who knows. Anyway, we mostly use the attached NAS server for data/document storage, so it wasn't a big deal. The upgrade ran without re-partitioning on my Macbook pro. I had to get an updated driver for my MOTU Traveler, but that wasn't too bad. I'll probably have to do it for the Echo device I've got, too.
The mini seems a lot faster now, but that may be partially due to the abandonment of an old fragmented file system image. When I was re-installing stuff, I noticed that OpenOffice.org now supports Mac OS X natively, so I went with that instead of NeoOffice.
Overall decent experience upgrading - both in terms of price and easiness. Still prefer Debian :)
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2009-07-28 15:11 UTC
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| This phone has a scratch on the clear cover of the camera lens - I think that's the cause of the haziness. Anyway, another test - still getting used to the keyboard on the G1, but it's getting better. |
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