On 30/04/2015 12:42, whisky-dave wrote:
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.

Where do you think Apple used to get their money from before they
started creaming off the app store?



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.

What are you on about?
That is the exact opposite of what anyone would want to do.

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.

They sell different versions, you can buy whichever one you want.


MS disable some aspects of the software the day you purchase it,

Which ones?

Apple let you use it on any sytem it will install on. Apple will
disable things after 5,6, or 7 years.

They disable it from installing, you can noble it and install it and it
will work perfectly well but then Apple doesn't get a hardware sale.



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.

They don't develop hardware, they sub contract it out.
They didn't design the original Intel macs at all, Intel did it.