I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it. But you did not dictate into a dictating machine, because these were big heavy and expensive. You dictated it directly to someone who could 'take shorthand'. If you had a PC, it ran DOS. You looked for your files, and moved them around, started applications, one at a time, from the command line, and the command line was not pretty, it was green on black.
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Member since:2006-04-21
You're welcome to read my other posts, at least one of which will tell you, I don't run Windows either. I don't like it, never have, (AmigaOS without memory protection crashed less than "Windows Be-all-and-end-all Spend-the-military-budget-of-a-small-European-country-to-launch-it, AKA Windows95) and thank God, don't have any use for Windows-only software, except at work.
All I have to do to buy OSX is buy a £500+ computer to go along with it.
Member since:2005-09-13
Member since:2005-08-11
You don't have to prove anything when you upgrade windows, as the install detects the exisiting install of windows and UPGRADES it, how simple is that? IF you don't have windows installed, and try to use and upgrade disk, you are SOL, but that is because it is an upgrade disk.
You also do not have to jump through hoops to install your copy of windows on a new machine, you just install it and let it activate over the net, no hoops required. If you are being sneaky you can actually install it on several machines, just not at the same time. if you install it on new hardware more than x times in a given time period (I can't remember the criteria, as I only ran into the limit once, and was rebuilding my computer like a madman, I believe it was 6 or 7 times), you have to phone them, say the computer died, and they will give you a new code, 2-3 minutes total time on phone.
So it seems obvious to me that you have never upgraded a windows xp box lately, or have never have at all.
Member since:2006-04-21
Member since:2005-07-06
"You don't have to prove anything when you upgrade windows, as the install detects the exisiting install of windows and UPGRADES it, how simple is that? IF you don't have windows installed, and try to use and upgrade disk, you are SOL, but that is because it is an upgrade disk."
OK, let's see how far you get user your method after replacing the HD with a brand new larger HD and doing a clean install of the upgrade. With OS X all I have to do is boot from the CD and off I go. But then why would anyone ever need to do a clean install of Windows.
The $130 OS X does not provide a price break for previous versions, true. But when you go out and pay $300 for the full XP Pro you expect to be able to upgrade when the time comes. And $200 for the upgrade version is no bargain either.
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2005-07-06
"And WHY do I have to pay the FULL PRICE for an OS *upgrade*?"
Since XP professional is much closer to OS X than XP home is I can only presume you prefer to pay $200 to upgrade Windows over $130 to upgrade OS X...
Oh, and I forgot, with the $200 you have to be able to prove you have a previous version of Windows, since it is only an upgrade and not the full version, and you are REQUIRED to activate it with MS if you want to use it longer than 30 days.
And you are forgetting that if you want to take that version of Windows, uninstall it, and then install it on a different machine you have to jump through the hoops. Yeah, that Windows update is a real bargain.