On 29/04/2015 22:52, Simon Brown wrote:


"Dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 29/04/2015 22:21, Simon Brown wrote:


Than you can slowly ignore the Windows.....

buying a Mac you could aviod both windows and linux :-)


But I would still have to pay for the OS.

No, that comes free with a Mac.

Free in the same way windows is free with windows PCs?

No, free even for upgrades, unlike with Win until just recently.

Their equivalent of Office is free too.


No..
its included in the price of the hardware.
Upgrades are only free until Apple decide your hardware is too old and
that they want you to buy new hardware, then you find the upgrade wont
install.
This happens even when the hardware is actually quite capable of running
the upgrade as can be seen on youtube where people have hacked the
upgrade to run on hardware to old to run it.

You have to remember Microsoft develops and sells *software*, Apple gets
*hardware* developed and sells it. (They don't develop much hardware
themselves.)