Upgrading Laptops-OS X vs. Windows
By James Dickey. Filed in General |Tags: Apple, Laptop Computer, MacBook Pro, OS X Snow Leopard, Windows
An interesting thing happened today. I upgraded the software on a laptop. It’s worth noting because while we have 4 laptops in the household (one each on OS X, Vista, XP and 2000), I can’t remember the last time I ever did that.
On Windows it was just too hard and too expensive. An upgrade was easily $99 for the OS software alone, and inevitably needed more ram and more hard drive space and by the time I looked at upgrading all of that, the time involved, and the likelihood of some software incompatibility, it was literally cheaper and easier to buy a new laptop.
Not today. Today I installed Apple’s Snow Leopard OS upgrade on the 4-year-old MacBook Pro that I use as my primary machine. It took less than 1 hour (during which none of my attention was needed).
Everything works perfectly, and faster. Kudos to Apple for proving that even in the high tech world not everything needs to have a short life cycle if it’s well designed and well built.
