Much the same can be said for Microsoft, when they upgrade the operating system you generally need a new computer and to upgrade all the software. Photography is an expensive hobby and falling into debt made me sell all my photographic camera equipment except for my compact pocket digital which I carry around with me. The big digital was not used much as I had to use it with the car as it was too heavy to carry around and I also had to sell the car to clear the hp debt. I am now a sad old man almost housebound and without my lifelong companion of my mother, who is in a care home and Edit left me to go home as I could not afford to support her. She was ill and needed to be with her own people in Hungary where she is also almost homeless as the people she lives with do not want her. I think she will soon settle down with a Hungarian young man, hopefully much younger than my 68 years. Friendless, car less and camera less.... Chris -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor Cunningham Sent: 28 October 2010 17:31 To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: Re: OSX in a non-apple? "What it's like to own an Apple product": http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple Now really, I'm going to stop now! :-) On 10/28/10 7:08 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On Thu, October 28, 2010 10:20, Emily L. Ferguson wrote: >> At 5:53 PM +0300 10/28/10, Trevor Cunningham wrote: >>> I've always thought that the only reason someone would choose to >>> endure a Mac OS would be the benefits of its hardware, most notably >>> the graphic display. >> Hmm. What might it be that you thing about the Mac OS that is so >> unpleasant as to characterize with the word "endure". > Well, nearly everything; but most specially, having to go all the way to > the top of the screen to find the menu for the current window (a leftover > from the single-tasking heritage). > > Also, they've put their users through amazing amounts of hell; 68k to > power-pc to Intel just on the hardware side, and several flag-day changes > on the software side as well. I wouldn't sign up for any company that > behaved that way. >
