“Time‘s arrow marches forward…”I remember buying this at my campus library while in school. Father time remains undefeated.
“Time‘s arrow marches forward…”I remember buying this at my campus library while in school. Father time remains undefeated.
Yep. For most macOS releases it comes down to hafta vs wanna. I don’t upgrade until I hafta because I don’t wanna.I think the market is wide open for a disrupter to come in with actual good, complete, finalized, software again.
Even Apple baffles me. Software gets updated, but I would hesitate to call it progress. It's like they have to make changes to justify their existence. At some point we have to accept that computers are like refrigerators now. They all keep your food cold.
Want to see people start thinking of tech as more of an appliance. Even basic cheap computers now run at speeds that would satisfy 99% of the population.
I still have a Snow Leopard disc in my desk.
OK - doing the math. The generic 3.5" floppy drive is 1.44MB (~1,500,000 bytes).Feh! I could install MS-DOS in an IBM-390 with a few million of those:
As does Macworld, where the incorrect story originated!MR needs to do a bit better!
You can download whatever you want instead of getting a cd/dvd. Then just squirrel it away somewhere until you need it. You can even copy it to cd/dvd if you want to stay old school.I don’t know why people are cheering on the death of physical media. You’re just giving away control. I can take a CD of Office 2010 and install it on a machine and not have to worry about subscriptions, cloud updates that break things, AWS being up or down, or some bull around lawsuits or copyrights causing them to take it down or to take away some functionality. I can just use it like the way it should be.
Until that adorable big cat eats your dog or child.
I believe that's the first OS I used when buying my first iMac in 2011Snow Leopard was simply the best OS ever, IMO. Everything you needed, nothing you didn't, and as stable as they come.
The Macworld Article has been corrected.As does Macworld, where the incorrect story originated!
Editor’s note: Roman’s faulty memory incorrectly stated originally that Apple removed the installation discs from the Apple Store. Apple actually offered Lion and Mountain Lion download codes through the Apple Store online and has ceased doing so.
Damn, you're bringing back memories. Needing entire boxes of floppies to store a single software installation. Long glad to see that end of that.I remember when Microsoft Office came on at least 20 3.5 inch floppies. Good riddance!
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And a shiny one too.They will try to eat it, thinking it’s a cookie.
Unfortunately everyone is rushing their content and customers want quality content to be delivered 24*7, even though that’s definitely NOT how it works. (Saw a debate about a recent mobile game’s storyline being too short, and my argument was quality content didn’t come cheap)Give me Final Fantasy VII. Battlefield 1942. Ocarina of Time.
Give me quality content on launch day.
I like old man’s spirit challenging today’s status quo mentality.You youngins with your itty bitty floppies and teeny wenie USB boot drives. Real men go 5.25 and larger. Don't make me pull out my TRS 80 and coal roll my F350, now get off my lawn:
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Actually I use 10.5 and 10.4 including some web surfing once in a while for my PPC and I use 10.6.8 in a VM all the time on the Mac Pro for my Canon film scanner, old AirPort app for full control, SoundTrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro, AppleWorks 6 and lots more. If I could run the latest apps with the old OS and old apps, I would be using that old Mac OS X version every day! It really just works so well and was so supported by apps etc. at the time.Who would use any macOS older than Yosemite anyway??
My Gosh so old and outdated.
MacBook Pro 2012 15-inch unibody, was the last final "release" with an optical drive. The Mac Pro was released in 2010 so is older for the year "release" part. Sold? I don't remember off the top of my head.I’m too lazy to look on Google, what was the last Mac with an optical disc drive? Was it the pre-trash can Mac Pro?
Last sold was surely the 2012 13” MBP unibody, which was sold new until October, 2016.MacBook Pro 2012 15-inch unibody, was the last final "release" with an optical drive. The Mac Pro was released in 2010 so is older for the year "release" part. Sold? I don't remember off the top of my head.
How could I have forgotten that one! You are so right.Last sold was surely the 2012 13” MBP unibody, which was sold new until October, 2016.