Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jul 2008 05:10 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
An opinion article at APCMag: "The focus of Snow Leopard is on core upgrades, not shiny new features. A bedrock focused update that delivers a streamlined, enhanced OS X. Stability. Efficiency. A "new generation of core technologies." All this is about raising the floor on the entire system. Multi-core optimization, support for 16TB RAM (yes, Terabytes), and a language to allow developers to tap the power of the graphics processor are just a few of the key upgrades. But you can't lift the floor and let people walk around where the floor used to be all at the same time. Not without leaving holes for a potential rising damp problem further down the track."
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people used to complain about the microsoft tax - every few years you were expected to buy new versions of windows or word to be able to stay compatible.
Well it seems to me that apple must have co-opted their tax department and turboed it. Microsoft seem positively generous now in the way they support old hardware.
I don't mind apple moving on, but I've installed linux so that I don't have to put up with the paying the apple tax every couple of years.