Somebody made a good point about how disastrous things might have been had Jobs, not Gates, "won" the Apple vs Windows fight. Well, fuck Jobs and fuck Apple.
Today I phoned the local Apple dealer with a view to buy a nice new Mac for the office. Sure, the nice lady said, what programmes to you want to run. Well, Photoshop CS2 for one.
Whoa there, said Apple lady (let's call her Fiona). CS2 won't work with the latest OS named after a predatory cat. You'll have to upgrade to Photoshop CS3.
Gee whizz, said I, so I don't suppose the latest OS would support Classic, the parallell operating system we had to purchase to run older programmes that wouldn't work on OS X. Fiona confirmed my suspicion. But being the practical type, I cheerfully suggested that an earlier version of predatory cat might be installed on my prospective spanking new Apple Mac. Alas, no can do, Fiona said. The computer would explode, or something.
So I won't buy a new computer if I also will need to upgrade all my software.
And if I'm still here when the three-year-old eMacs give up the ghost, I'll chuck the Macs and switch over to Windows because, evil as Microsoft is, they don't take the piss as much as Mac.
Today I phoned the local Apple dealer with a view to buy a nice new Mac for the office. Sure, the nice lady said, what programmes to you want to run. Well, Photoshop CS2 for one.
Whoa there, said Apple lady (let's call her Fiona). CS2 won't work with the latest OS named after a predatory cat. You'll have to upgrade to Photoshop CS3.
Gee whizz, said I, so I don't suppose the latest OS would support Classic, the parallell operating system we had to purchase to run older programmes that wouldn't work on OS X. Fiona confirmed my suspicion. But being the practical type, I cheerfully suggested that an earlier version of predatory cat might be installed on my prospective spanking new Apple Mac. Alas, no can do, Fiona said. The computer would explode, or something.
So I won't buy a new computer if I also will need to upgrade all my software.
And if I'm still here when the three-year-old eMacs give up the ghost, I'll chuck the Macs and switch over to Windows because, evil as Microsoft is, they don't take the piss as much as Mac.
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