Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Nov 2007 11:12 UTC, submitted by trinitrotolueen
"This is something I never thought I'd hear myself say - or maybe I should say, see myself type - about an Apple operating system: Mac OSX Leopard was released before it was ready. This operating system needed more testing on more systems with more hardware, and especially, more software configurations. The days of Apple computers operating with just the Mac OS and Adobe Photoshop installed, and practically nothing else to speak of, are long gone, and Apple knows this as well as anyone. This operating system was not properly beta tested, and Apple's customers are paying for it, with lost productivity and inoperative computers."
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2006-06-02
Ye, we neo-converts do need to chill, and reflect. I am glad I started with an old G4 culled from a defunct design workshop for relative peanuts, since I am not massively 'out of pocket' now my views of Apple, its operations, attitudes, and operating system above all, etc, are less rosy through experience.
I have had fun upgrading it, I admire the hardware - what I have is an eight-year old workhorse that can still (with a bit of help) run a modern OS and which does not look like it's going to fall over soon on the level of the kit itself.
Yes, we should not get emotionally attached but we do - almost everything in life is an attachment (not wanting attachments is also an attachment, at least that's what the Buddhists finally twigged) and we do things for any number of reasons apart from rational ones that maximise our benefit with ease 100% of the time. We invest time, money and effort, which if they didn't result in our wanting things to be a certain way, or have a certain flavour, style or substance would make us robots.
I have noticed that with the last few updates, things have been going wrong - the dock is playing up massively, windows jump around - the sort of daft inexplicable thing I left Windows for. Yes, every OS has its quirks: some of the problems we are happy to ignore, others we see as providing the opportunity to be a fixer, etc. But behind all this as another poster put it is just another big billion Dollar company that can look after itself, and only wants to make money.
So, my last upgrade for this machine is a graphics card that will allow me to have some eye-candy at least under PPC Linux, and maybe one day I'll have the ability to be part of something constructive for the common good that isn't just an element of big wheels grinding (and yes, I am pretty emotionally attached to my idealism).
End of confessional..:-)