On 24 Feb 2012, at 14:34, Bob King wrote:
As a Professional designer for the Web and elsewhere, you must seek to maximize the difference between income and outgoings on hardware and software. Surely then the question should not be “can I do the client’s task on the very latest HW and SW?”, but “can I still do it (albeit with some extra coding), with 'older HW and SW”, thereby saving some hard earned money.
Hi Bob; if you believe in the old adage ‘Time is money’, then you’ll do better to keep your equipment, including your OS, up to date. You say ‘albeit with some extra coding’ above, without seeming to see that as a disadvantage. Wouldn’t it be nicer to do it without needing that? If you’re the professional designer that you refer to above, then the difference between incomings and outgoings on hardware/software will, or should be, immense. Your tools will typically cost a mere fraction of the money you earn using them, in an ideal world, at least. I do realise that all worlds are not ideal though.
I had a read of your original post, just to make sure I knew what you were talking about:
Snow Leopard is perfect for me. The (over) rapid release of Lion, with (for Apple) unusual, teething problems, and Apple’s adoption of the Microsoft ‘enforcement’ culture, Aka Windoze, has stopped me from going Lion.
Out of interest, why do you think that Lion was released ‘over rapidly’, and what were the teething problems? I had none here, I just switched and everything seemed to work perfectly. What’s Apple’s 'adoption of the Microsoft enforcement culture? I don’t feel as though I’ve been forced into doing anything I wouldn’t have welcomed with open arms.
I now see that 10.8, or ‘Mountain Lion’, is on the horizon, in direct competition with Windows 8
What’s the significance of it being ‘in direct competition with Windows 8’?
with both seeming to have abandoned the desktop computer, and going hell bent for the tablet, phone and touch symbol-control market.
This really isn’t the case. You can run Lion in exactly the same way as you run Snow Leopard, or for that matter, Tiger before it. Nobody is saying you have to use IOS gestures, or a Magic Trackpad. You can plug in any old USB mouse and continue to do just what you always did. Apple are not doing what Microsoft are doing. Microsoft is going for ‘Windows everywhere’, on PC and tablet alike, which is pretty dumb as they’re different paradigms. Apple is merely trying to ensure that if you have a Mac and an IOS device, you’ll be able to use them both in a very similar way. As an iPad owner, I applaud that. But it’s not obligatory; you have all the freedom in the world to use Lion just as you’ve used previous system versions, and you’ll still find many advantages if you do, albeit not as many as if you embrace it wholeheartedly. Apple isn’t trying to make the OS the same on the Mac as it is on the tablet. They’re merely trying to bring some of the sophistication of the iPad to the Mac, and that’s no bad thing, particularly when, as I said above, it’s entirely optional.
best wishes,
Paul Bradforth
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