Additionally finding support for older versions of the operating system becomes exceedingly more difficult - and speaking of the Macintosh user community, they tend to need significant support.
You may have experienced differently, but I've always seen Mac users as needing LESS support then windows users. In fact there have been studies to prove that "total cost of ownership" for a Mac based office is less then that of a windows based one -- this due mostly to lowered support costs.
>>You don't own a Mac do you? It's a pretty lonely world for people who don't upgrade their software. Newer Apple software packages generally require near current versions of the OS, and many other software vendors go the same route.
I make my living at my computer. I have a mac, a older mac running Yellow Dog Linux, a PC running Win 2000. On my Mac I use, *daily* Illustrator10, Photoshop7, QuarkXpress 4, BBEdit7 just to name a few. All very recent releases.
My point? I run os9. No, not osX in classic (emulation of 9) mode, but os9. I've never bought an OSX version. No desire to.
I make my living on that mac. A good living. You don't have to upgrade unless you want to. Period.
On a final note... I think I'm going to up to OS 10.3 because there are bunches of new features that I'd like, so I'm now willing to spend the money.
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You may have experienced differently, but I've always seen Mac users as needing LESS support then windows users. In fact there have been studies to prove that "total cost of ownership" for a Mac based office is less then that of a windows based one -- this due mostly to lowered support costs.
>>You don't own a Mac do you? It's a pretty lonely world for people who don't upgrade their software. Newer Apple software packages generally require near current versions of the OS, and many other software vendors go the same route.
I make my living at my computer. I have a mac, a older mac running Yellow Dog Linux, a PC running Win 2000. On my Mac I use, *daily* Illustrator10, Photoshop7, QuarkXpress 4, BBEdit7 just to name a few. All very recent releases.
My point? I run os9. No, not osX in classic (emulation of 9) mode, but os9. I've never bought an OSX version. No desire to.
I make my living on that mac. A good living. You don't have to upgrade unless you want to. Period.
On a final note ... I think I'm going to up to OS 10.3 because there are bunches of new features that I'd like, so I'm now willing to spend the money.