"Dennis@home" wrote in message
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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..

Yes.

its included in the price of the hardware.

The upgrades aren't.

Upgrades are only free until Apple decide your hardware is too old

They don’t start to charge you if your hardware is too old.

and that they want you to buy new hardware,

But you are free to ignore that want.

then you find the upgrade wont install.

Still cost you nothing to find that out.

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.

Still free.

You have to remember Microsoft develops and sells *software*,

It develops and sells *hardware* too, most obviously with the xbox.

Apple gets *hardware* developed and sells it. (They don't develop much
hardware themselves.)

Bull****.