FOR APPLE USERS - Page 2

Mz iMac · ‎07-26-2014

@bargainsgirl Nothing really. Once your 3rd party apps start giving you trouble and/or you are unable to download an app because your current OS is outdated, then it's time to upgrade to a new OS or update your current OS.

I am currently typing on a 2008 MBP using the last version of Snow Leopard X10.6.8. I still have the disc. I can still use all their apps which are easier to use than the latest Apple apps.

Personally, I believe Snow Leopard is the fastest OS Apple ever designed. I do not want to mess up a good thing on an antique comp.

"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."

gardenman · ‎03-09-2010

@Mz iMac wrote:
@bargainsgirl Nothing really. Once your 3rd party apps start giving you trouble and/or you are unable to download an app because your current OS is outdated, then it's time to upgrade to a new OS or update your current OS.

I am currently typing on a 2008 MBP using the last version of Snow Leopard X10.6.8. I still have the disc. I can still use all their apps which are easier to use than the latest Apple apps.
Personally, I believe Snow Leopard is the fastest OS Apple ever designed. I do not want to mess up a good thing on an antique comp.

Modern OS's are huge in comparison to older ones. Snow Leopard was about a 4GB download. Sequioa is about 14-16 GBs. Computer hardware keeps getting faster and faster, but programmers then make their programs bigger, wiping out the speed gained from the newer hardware.

My first desktop PC in 1984 had a 100 MHz Pentium CPU and a whopping 1.2 GB hard drive. "You'll never use all 1.2 GB of hard drive." That PC came with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 both pre-installed, and I then added Windows 95, and still had tons of storage space left over. That was pretty much as good as a computer could get at the time.

If you could take an old operating system like Windows 95 and run it on modern hardware, it would be so fast it would blow your mind. "It knows what I want to do before I do!" Hardware keeps getting faster and faster, but software keeps getting more and more bloated absorbing those speed increases.

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ritasNo1Fan · ‎03-12-2010

That darn IOS26 download disconnected my Tracfone account. A message popped up and said I should go to the nearest Genius Bar for additional help, so, I no longer have cell phone availability, only land line. I think I could transfer sim card back into the original Samsung Tracfone from hsn and give up on the Apple.