Just curious: Have you upgraded to Vista? Are you going to? What about those of you on Macs? Will you be upgrading to Leopard? If I were on a PC I would upgrade to Vista, but I’m not too sure I will be upgrading to Leopard later this year. What about you?
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Dem's fightin' words...
Troy said:
The moment my PC dies, GOD willing, I’m driving to an Apple store.
Posted on March 21, 2007 at 5:16 pm
caleb vaughn said:
I have a few PCs, and I have no plans on upgrading to Vista anytime soon (if ever). XP does everything I need, i don’t need fancy GUI stuff.
On my main machine, a Mac, i am thinking about weather to upgrade to Leopard. The features Apple has shown so far are nice, but not enough to make me upgrade.
Posted on March 21, 2007 at 5:19 pm
ben said:
I have no need to get vista. I think its overrated too. I’m still praying for a mac.
Posted on March 21, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Phil Bowell said:
I will be up-grading to Leopard probably within the first few weeks of launch. I think the existing features that have been announced look good, but that the ones to come will be better, hence the secrecy. The thing with Leopard is that it will run faster on my iMac than Tiger does, as it will on my iBook (although I probably won’t upgrade that), OS X gets more and more streamlined with each new edition.
I’m interested as to why you won’t upgrade to Leopard?
Posted on March 21, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Benjamin Wood said:
I don’t think i am going to upgrade to leopard, i like this too much. And i don’t have the money to purchase.
Posted on March 21, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Char said:
We’re going to upgrade to Leopard because it sounds like fun and we got four other people to buy the family pack with us so it will be pretty cheap to take the plunge.
Posted on March 21, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Ducky said:
If I buy a Mac this fall (read: if G-d chooses to bless me with lots and lots of money), I’ll be happy with whatever Apple gives me. I’m certainly getting tired of Windows. But if I do go for a PC, I’m thinking of installing Linux or a Linux-based OS. Currently trying to get Ubuntu to run on my old laptop … not going so well.
Posted on March 21, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Ronalfy said:
I would have to buy a totally new computer for Vista. It would cost too much to upgrade my computer to meet Vista’s minimum requirements.
Posted on March 21, 2007 at 8:05 pm
caleb vaughn said:
@Ducky: Need help with Ubuntu? I’m pretty good with linux, whats the problem?
Posted on March 21, 2007 at 8:09 pm
{Shawn} said:
@ Troy: God willing, I too hope your car can make the drive.
@ Phil: I’m not sure if I want to spend $150 on a new OS that doesn’t seem to have any features that really appeal to me yet. I didn’t think about Leopard being more streamlined to run quicker on my PowerBook. I guess I figured with each upgraded OS they ran a little bit slower on a dated machine.
@ Ducky: Ben at open switch made the plunge into Ubuntu. He has a lot of excellent posts on setup and integraton. Links I, II.
Posted on March 21, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Emily Mea said:
Because I work at a tech support call center and see so many issues with Vista and the internet - from internet protocal to things that cause it to be hard to trouble shoot - I can’t imagine putting it on my PC. For instance Vista runs an IP v6 and IP v4 at the same time. That can cause some serious trouble when you’re on the internet. It also doesn’t have a telnet function on it unless you manualy go and turn it on.
Going into better telnet on OSX is easier than messing with Vista - and I dread Mac calls at work because they can get complicated.
On the other hand, the lack of Mac calls is making me almost want to get one.
Posted on March 21, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Alister Cameron // Blogologist said:
I took an entire day out to upgrade my notebook to Vista.
Hours and hours later, on the final reboot it started cycling thru to a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), then rebooting, back to the BSOD… over and over again.
I had no choice but to back out and let it reinstall XP. Fortunately it did that fine.
Turns out my notebook has an incompatible video driver.
Makes me appreciate that Mac TV ad all the more now!
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 12:36 am
julian paling said:
I brought a new PC with vista installed. It’s ok but not exactly groundbreaking. XP was good, my advice is there is no need to pay to upgrade. You wont get a great deal for your money.
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 7:52 am
Idhrendur said:
I don’t have enough RAM to take XP to its full potential…I doubt I meet the requirements for Vista.
And let me be the one to go out on a limb here and say that Apples are disgusting. That’s right, I oppose the cult. Especially since Apple has left behind the Motorolla parts, and is switching to Intel. The last big advantage is gone…
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 9:52 am
Leonard Klaatu said:
Bring on Leopard.
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 10:05 am
Andy White said:
I’ll be holding off on Leopard - so far no features I’ve seen are ‘killer’ enough to make me want to sell my kids to get it, which I’d have to do given that I need Photoshop CS3 more, and that will probably bankrupt me. If I was on PC, I’d hope I’d have learned my lesson by now and have loaded Linux or something, but I woudln’ttouch Vista with a barge pole, or any other pole - it has one fatal flaw - teh word Windows in its title; it’s doomed forever.
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 10:21 am
{Shawn} said:
@ Idrendur: FYI - Lot’s of avid mac users read (and write) here.
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 10:22 am
{Shawn} said:
@ Andy: I’m saving for CS3 too. We should get a family pack or something.
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 10:24 am
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Posted on March 22, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Aidan L said:
I am currently using a PC and will not be upgrading to Vista. I currently just don’t see the point at all. Nothing says to me that it is worth the money that I would have to pay for it; by the way, the British prices are exorbitant. There is a huge difference between the USA prices and the British ones.
I currently don’t own a Mac; however I am looking to invest in one when I can afford it. I cannot afford it at the moment but I would like to find out more about the difference between Tiger and Leopard, and see if it is worth waiting until Leopard is released. Although like I say, that entirely depends on my money situation…
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Andy White said:
@Shawn - I think Adobe do them, and I think they are called ‘multi-user’ licences, which I think loosely translates as ‘we at adobe recognise that you aspire to be a big corporation, and we wish to cash in on that by offering you a multi-seat licence at an extortionate price’.
Of course, I could be wrong
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 12:30 pm
caleb vaughn said:
This post feels like a Weekend Survey, except its not the weekend.
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Idhrendur said:
@Shawn: Exactly. I must apologize, however, for I forgot I was WRITING, and thus forgot to make explicit that I’m somewhere between sarcastic and playful on all my anti-mac tirades…
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 10:43 pm
{Shawn} said:
@ Idrendur: No apologise needed. I knew you were being nerdy. I was too.
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Idhrendur said:
@Shawn: Okay, good. And I’m kind of used to being surrounded by Mac users…
Posted on March 22, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Troy said:
@ Shawn: I actually am a little concerned about how my car will be doing then. Would that my car were in better shape than my PC..
Posted on March 23, 2007 at 8:08 am
Jeff said:
Just had this conversation with a friend. I will upgarding to Leopard ASAP. It’s interesting that most of my PC-savvy friends who advise NOT to upgrade to Vista for a while.
Mac users seem to be early adoptors, without fear, while PC users are extremely skeptical about a decent early release by Microsoft.
Posted on March 23, 2007 at 10:24 am
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Posted on March 23, 2007 at 10:31 am
Scott said:
I won’t be upgrading to Vista anytime soon for three reasons: 1) it’s too early, 2) DRM issues and 3) my PC doesn’t meet the hardware requirements. Rather than spend the money on a new motherboard, processor and memory (let alone buy a whole new box), I just want to keep the hardware I’ve got running as long as it still meets my needs (so I guess my #4 is that I’m cheap).
I did recently replace my PC’s maxed out hard drive, slow video card and ailing CPU fan for a little over $100. When I reinstalled XP I also partitioned the drive for Ubuntu Linux. I’m having a blast learning a new OS. While I have wanted a Mac for a long time, I just might become enough of a Linux geek to push that purchase further and further back.
Posted on March 23, 2007 at 10:54 am
{Shawn} said:
@ Jeff: I seem to recall that nobody was lined up early to buy Vista.
@ Scott: I’ve been folowing your treck into Ubuntu. I think if I were in your shoes I would be doing the exact same thing.
Posted on March 23, 2007 at 11:22 am
Michaela said:
I won’t be upgrading to Vista. Microsoft’s new OS releases always need at least one service pack before they begin to have any stability.
I will upgrade whenever it is time to buy a new machine. I will get to experience the joys/challenges of Vista when my neighbor’s new PC arrives in a few days.
Posted on March 26, 2007 at 8:05 pm
bloodcreek said:
i’ll go for vista! everyone is excited about leopard…….ill tell you! vista is better! i mean the best.
Posted on March 28, 2007 at 8:56 am
caleb vaughn said:
@bloodcreek: I hope that was sarcasm…
Posted on March 28, 2007 at 9:31 am
Emily Mea said:
After following this conversation for the last few days, we had this conversation at work night before last. All I can say is you sure can tell the difference between mac and pc users. The mac peeps all want to upgrade, no questions asked. Us PC users are wary until the first (or second) service pack comes out.
I love working tech support sometimes.
As I’ve said before, I’m not upgrading yet. I have the capability but I hate the problems I’m already seeing.
Posted on March 28, 2007 at 11:26 am