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A new laptop for me is a 12″-14″ lightweight business class machine for a couple hundred bucks off ebay and throwing my latest favorite Linux distro on it. Those usually get me by for 3-4 years easy and I don’t too upset when they get knocked off the kitchen table like my current Dell just did a few weeks ago.
Mavericks is nice, but it seems like iSync is finally not working anymore. In Mountain Lion the Snow Leopard version still worked. Need another way to sync my Nokia C7. 😮
Sweet, where can I download it for free? Would like to try it out on some of my non-Apple hardware and see if I can get it to work.
Or did you mean Apple won’t soak you any additional for it this round since they are trying to trick all those forced to upgrade from XP into thinking Apple OS upgrades are routinely free…since they already soaked you enough when you bought your Apple computer. 😉
+1 on Parallels. I have been using it for years on 2 MacBooks to run Project and Visio without a problem.
I am way overdue for on OSX upgrade. I am still running Snow Leopard on my Mid 2011 Macbook. There was not much in Lion or Mountain Lion I could not live without so I passed on both of them due to issues I heard about on battery life and other things. Mavericks sounds like it will improve battery life and usable memory so I just added a new thumb drive to my Amazon order yesterday, will create a boot drive and do the upgrade this week.
Off topic. after avoiding upgrading my iPhone 4 to IOS 7, I accidentally upgraded this morning and it really is not as bad as reported on the iPhone 4. But, but but, I was in the Apple store on Friday to have a battery replaced and tried the iPhone 5s….gotta have one. I am going to upgrade via ATT for $299 and get $125 for my old iPhone 4
Now that I have a 5s, I want touch ID on everything. I’ll have to look into a boot disk for mavericks. My parents are running whichever version was before the Mac App Store, so I might see if I can upgrade their white MacBook.
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Interesting response Monty. You can download from the Apple store from you MAC. Otherwise, if you want to make a “Hackintosh”, you can get it from many torrent sites- check out pirate bay. I don’t know much about installing OSX on a PC. Your response seems a little sarcastic so not sure where you are going with your comment. Apple or any other PC vendor does’t made huge profits on software- the margin is in the hardware.
1+ for Mint :)! I run it on one of my thinkpads (x300) i use as mainly text based office type work on the go.. So clean :p
I don’t know about sarcastic but there was some attitude, LOL. Apple makes their margin on their hardware because of their name and software (a decent OS). Seriously, my point is, they may not be charging for this upgrade but it isn’t free.
I was a windows user since 3.1, heavy user since windows 95. Earlier in the year i bought a Windows 8 notebook and it encouraged me to buy a macbook pro.
I got a student discount from the local apple store and 18 months interest free financing. Made it a no brainer. I figured I would do a dual boot with win 7 but in almost 3 months I haven’t found a reason to. I don’t game much and for that I’ve got a desktop I built years ago that still plays everything reasonably well.
I’ve mostly gotten used to mac at this point and I really like it. There’s still some to learn but after so long with windows that only stands to reason.
I really enjoy this computer, a lot. Its not perfect, but I think it does offer a lot for the money. There are cheaper notebooks for sure, even at this performance level, but I’ve never seen a windows based notebook that offers the build quality of this macbook pro.Broadcast via Jedi mind tricks
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