#INTEL POWER GADGET MAC 10.6.8 PRO#
For instance, Mac Pro "quad core" and 8-core systems won't run OS 10.4 Nehalem-based machines won't run 10.6.
Each generation of Apple hardware has a minimum OS version, keeping you from going back too far.
#INTEL POWER GADGET MAC 10.6.8 UPGRADE#
Apple's own products are the worst for this, but eventually you lose 3rd party apps as well.Įven if you resist the demands of new software, you'll eventually get forced to upgrade via hardware. They push out new versions of the OS, along with new versions of development tools, which produce software that's not backwards-compatible past a certain point, such that eventually you can't run new software without installing major (0.1) updates. If I could still run 10.4 plus bugfixes and security updates, with modern software, I would.īut that's not possible. I resisted updating 10.4 for years IMO that was the high water mark for OS X, everything has basically been downhill from there. That's the problem in a nutshell: OS X changes because there's new management that wants to put its stamp on things, regardless of whether it improves the productivity of the user or not.Īpple has a pretty vicious hardware/software upgrade treadmill. It's just going after that huge base of newbies and midlevel people who don't notice or complain about all the changes that really, truly are not improvements. It feels like Apple is abandoning its longtime users, the master users, the users who've climbed the pyramid, who've achieved a lot of game levels. WTF, Apple? I now have to do 10 extra steps just to Save As. One major shot across the bow was the loss of "Save As." and the change to "Duplicate". But I am worried sick that OS X is dying, in the sense that it's becoming a platform to deliver people to Apple's (and partners') cloud services and sharing services and that's it. I just dread the idea of moving to Linux again. I haven't quit it, but the problems, annoyances, surprises, seeming ineptitude, and creeping iOSification of OS X that the author describes sure do resonate.Įvery new major release of OS X is a day or week spent disabling things, shutting down Spotlight again, trying to restore things back to the way they were instead of the way some Designer with a capital D thinks they should be, for no other reason than, "Beauty."
0 kommentar(er)
