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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.
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."
“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.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/02/which-macs-will-os-x-mountain-lion-support.ars
Inasmuch as nothing they've announced in 10.8 really seems "must have," I might be tempted to stand pat at 10.7.But then, if OS 10.9 denigrates some more machines than 10.8 is already doing, it looks like Mountain Lion could possibly be the last update for my iMac (which I told my wife was my Christmas present when I bought it back in late 2007). If such be the case, I might as well do the last upgrade when 10.8 comes out. I made the mistake of not upgrading my 800MHz G4 to Tiger, and when I handed it down to my daughter it would have been more useful to her with Tiger.