Posted on 02/16/2012 10:56:47 PM PST by Swordmaker
Thanks to Antirepublicrat for the head's up!
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Older Macs voted off the Mountain Lion island
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/02/which-macs-will-os-x-mountain-lion-support.ars
Another Mac OS release, another moment of truth for those using old Macs. Apple’s next OS X release, code-named Mountain Lion, will drop support for some older machines as the company continues to move forward with the iOS-ification of the operating system.
Great news. Apple making their own platforms obsolete to make a buck. I wonder if there is any sympathy for those that bought overly expensive systems only to be left out in the cold now. This is the same old story over and over again yet people still fall for this trick.
They know the deal. It’s part of the experience.
IATTV (In After The Toxic Vomit). Thanks for the ping.
The adage, "A fool and his money are soon parted" has pretty much been Apple's MO from the get go.
Another Mac OS release, another moment of truth for those using old Macs.Yeah, they are dropping support for my Macbook Pro. It is on its last legs anyway, but I will use the opportunity to buy a new tablet PC for Windows 8. I like my Mac, but I spend most of my time working in Windows, and with all the PCs around the house, it's just too expensive to maintain both platforms.
"iOS-ification" is nothing less than the creation of terminals, rather than stand-alone computers with private integrity. Of course they don't call the hub a 'mainframe" anymore - it's the "cloud" (whcih almost writes itself as a joke by the late, great George Carlin, who loved pointing out such hypocrisies).
Apple, and the Mac of course, made it's name offering an alternative to the terminal, called the personal computer.
Pay no attention to that totalitarian behind the Birkenstocks. Repeat after me: "Think Different. Steve Jobs was a genius. We have always been at war with Microsoft."
Never discuss the following topics around mixed company:
-religion
-politics
-Mac vs PC
“as the company continues to move forward with the iOS-ification of the operating system.”
ossification:
a. The process of becoming set in a rigidly conventional pattern, as of behavior, habits, or beliefs.
b. Rigid, unimaginative convention.
But this is FR, we can discuss all 3 and drive each other crazy! I love you all!
A modern truth, but so much of the same. ;-)
Yeah it’s crazy. They just keep on fleecing their customers by making their products better. Bah! Computers...who needs them anyway? Just give me a typewriter and a bottle of white-out.
Sort of makes the case for mac mini; get some good thunderbolt peripherals and swap out relatively less expensive CPU.
Mel
What I'm hearing is that the EOL cutoff is based more on GPU than CPU for Mountain Lion.
As for the "iOS-ification" comments, it's nonsense. Of course Apple wants to make certain applications and UI elements have the same look and feel across devices -- why shouldn't they? It makes it easier to capture iOS device users on the desktop, and it gives those who buy into the entire Apple ecosystem a consistent look-and-feel across devices. And with iCloud integration, it's not just consistent look-and-feel, but consistent data as well.
The point the naysayers miss is that these additions take nothing away from the existing OS -- they're new features. If you're using Apeture and Photoshop, they will still work just fine.
Nor is Apple the only one doing this. Windows 8 anyone? I fail to see what is bad about cross-device consistency.
I thought it was ironic that a lot of the mac boxes that wont be supported...will still run Windows 8! (i think mentioned in the ars thread).
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