On Thursday, 30 April 2015 08:15:38 UTC+1, Dennis@home wrote:
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.

Not really.
At the weekend I installed the latest version yosmite (free) on my Mac mini
I brought new in 2010. Before that I'd installed mavericks (free)
I instaleld phots for free last night, photos didn;t exist when the hardware was made, although prhaps that's just a name change.


Upgrades are only free until Apple decide your hardware is too old and
that they want you to buy new hardware,
or keep yuor old 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.

yes but you can run into other problems so those that want an easy life
will use recommened OS's for the hardware. In most cases it's a waste of time running the latest software on out fo date machine whether it's mac or PC.
Can you think of any advantages to running XP on a new laptop ?
MS don't support it.




You have to remember Microsoft develops and sells *software*,
Yep, how many differnt versions for teh same computer ?
MS disable certain aspects of the cheaper software installs, because they don't want all their customers getting the full value of their product.

MS disable some aspects of the software the day you purchase it, Apple
let you use it on any sytem it will install on. Apple will disable things after 5,6, or 7 years.


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

apart from some chips, such as the specail controller for the retina displays.
and a lopt of the ipad/iphone chips.