My brief affair with Mac OS X
Mar. 14th, 2018 11:32 amBack in 2012, Microsoft took a sharp turn into stupidsville with Windows 8. Around the same time, I grudgingly concluded that I was going to have to upgrade someday from Windows XP because more and more software was requiring something newer. This after nine years of reusing my copy of Windows 98 on various computers and another four reusing the Windows XP volume licence from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
morgan_dhu's work machine.
I surveyed the options: continue using XP and have more and more of the internet tell me my browser was too old; buying a legit copy of a newer version of Windows for close to $100, which would in turn cease to be supported after less than a decade, requiring me to buy yet another $100 licence; switching to Linux with all its chronic usability nightmares; or switching to the Mac.
We had by this point both gotten Ipads and I had replaced our DVD player with a computer running Itunes, so it didn't seem as huge a jump as it had in the past. I investigated hackintoshes and discovered that the creation, care and feeding of one would land me in the same user unfriendly realm as desktop Linux. I started shopping for a used Mac.
( Long and boringly nerdy )
morgan_dhu's work machine. I surveyed the options: continue using XP and have more and more of the internet tell me my browser was too old; buying a legit copy of a newer version of Windows for close to $100, which would in turn cease to be supported after less than a decade, requiring me to buy yet another $100 licence; switching to Linux with all its chronic usability nightmares; or switching to the Mac.
We had by this point both gotten Ipads and I had replaced our DVD player with a computer running Itunes, so it didn't seem as huge a jump as it had in the past. I investigated hackintoshes and discovered that the creation, care and feeding of one would land me in the same user unfriendly realm as desktop Linux. I started shopping for a used Mac.
( Long and boringly nerdy )
