win some, lose some

[kaigou]

Well, wiped the drive & upgraded, and now I have to (a) figure out wtf Mac has changed for all its settings, (b) wtf is up with making me use my admin pw for EVERYTHING, and the most important, (c) MAKING IT DO WHAT I WANT. Sadly, experience has taught me it's the last that'll take the longest (if it's ever achieved). On the plus side, very speedy now! Though I wonder how much of that is because my address book got messed up and/or didn't save to the backup drive, and now... well, that was a lot of addresses. Guess I just need to spend a few days convincing myself that I didn't want to write any of you, anyway. Sheesh. It's always something...

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[kaigou]

I suspect by the time I bother to upgrade, upgrading this comp to S.Leopard would've been pointless, since I may have to buy a whole new machine in a few years. Yeah, I put off upgrading that long.

(Also, I've seen the proposed interface for Win8 and... wow. That's pretty bad.)

[thejeopardymaze]

It was like an unintentional tribute to the worst of bloated X11 desktop managers.

Yeah, I put off upgrading that long.

How old is your machine? Mine is a first generation white MacBook with x86, but my memory is a bit fuzzy on whether its one of the first Macs with that type of processor. I'll probably have it recycled, due to damage. Even if someone wants to put a lightweight variant of Linux or BSD, I have a feeling they wouldn't like the keyboarding experience at this rate.

[kaigou]

It's only... hmm, 4 years old? Young enough to be able to handle Lion, though it's been fried by one thunderstorm and had its hard-drive replaced, and it has been in a work-zone while I've renovated. The Mac guy who called to let me know when it was ready for pick-up also gave me a slight talking-to about the insides... but the all-in-one design is really inadequate for environments with three cats, two dogs, and random drywall dust floating through. The screen isn't airtight, for starters, so drywall dust gets in that way, along with in through the intakes.

But I'll probably keep it as long as I can, and if work keeps going the way it does, I may end up upgrading to Lion despite my wishes otherwise. Keeping up and ahead is necessary for my industry.

[thejeopardymaze]

If the revolutionaries succeed I hope the new leaders will make it illegal for software companies that make OS's require more RAM, especially in regards to upgrades.