I get updates approximately every other month on Mac OS X. Sometimes they're small updates, sometimes they're big feature changes, but they do happen.
I can't even name the number of things Apple has changed in iTunes over the years. Each update seems to have some new feature or adaption to current technology, and these updates are free. Same with the iLife updates, and the Safari updates.
And #26: I never pay more than $70 for an Apple OS. That's the student price, and as long as you're a student or educator, you can get that price. So I don't know about paying that much... It's painfully easy to get a student ID and save yourself 20% or more on Apple products.
The boost from 10.3 to 10.4 was huge. The new features are worth it, and the difference is significant-- Especially when you consider the switch to Intel and the stellar line-up of Universal Binary programs in OS X Tiger.
What did XP SP2 give you? A firewall? Wheee! That's been part of OS X from the beginning. I'm surprised it took Windows until it was 3/4 of the way through its life before MS supplied a firewall in their OS. It would seem to me that things like a firewall and security features would be the first thing you'd want... Instead, Windows focused on a lot of fluffy programs, each with tons of security holes, and that bastion of stupidity-- THE REGISTRY.
I do not miss the Windows Registry. Even in my Mac Windows partition, I avoid that registry and do my best to keep the OS clean and untouched. It's far too easy to screw up Windows permanently via that registry and the programs that aren't smart enough to clean up after themselves.
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I get updates approximately every other month on Mac OS X. Sometimes they're small updates, sometimes they're big feature changes, but they do happen.
I can't even name the number of things Apple has changed in iTunes over the years. Each update seems to have some new feature or adaption to current technology, and these updates are free. Same with the iLife updates, and the Safari updates.
And #26: I never pay more than $70 for an Apple OS. That's the student price, and as long as you're a student or educator, you can get that price. So I don't know about paying that much... It's painfully easy to get a student ID and save yourself 20% or more on Apple products.
The boost from 10.3 to 10.4 was huge. The new features are worth it, and the difference is significant-- Especially when you consider the switch to Intel and the stellar line-up of Universal Binary programs in OS X Tiger.
What did XP SP2 give you? A firewall? Wheee! That's been part of OS X from the beginning. I'm surprised it took Windows until it was 3/4 of the way through its life before MS supplied a firewall in their OS. It would seem to me that things like a firewall and security features would be the first thing you'd want... Instead, Windows focused on a lot of fluffy programs, each with tons of security holes, and that bastion of stupidity-- THE REGISTRY.
I do not miss the Windows Registry. Even in my Mac Windows partition, I avoid that registry and do my best to keep the OS clean and untouched. It's far too easy to screw up Windows permanently via that registry and the programs that aren't smart enough to clean up after themselves.