Apple Missteps… rare, but a biggie.
As a long time Mac user (OS 7.1.2 was running on my first Power Mac – try that one on for size), I have always revelled in the fact that pretty much since the first iMac, Apple has been pretty mistake free (the Cube being the big exception to the rule). But here we go, the release for OSX 10.5 Leopard has been pushed back until October. OUCH! Because of a phone. Double OUCH.
I suppose them dropping “Computer” from their name was a good step, it’s obvious that shiny gadgets (which unfortunately, I love) are now the real show at Apple. The iPod’s next release won’t slip, I bet.
And so, one of the major reasons I have been holding off getting a new MacBookfor work is gone… No free upgrade to the latest OS for me.
I have a PowerBook G4, and with the universal binary for Adobe’s CS3 Suite coming soon, it may just be time to get the new Intel based laptop. Sure, the newer brighter LCDs sound nice, and the Flash hybrid disk rumors are interesting… but in the end ‘shiny’ isn’t what I get a computer for, it’s to get things done. This new schedule slippage for the OS serves as a good reminder to me on that… waiting for a “newer, better” machine is a pretty fruitless exercise. (Like that pun?)
Posted on April 12, 2007
John Barrettin Apr 13
Hey, I am in the same boat. i was waiting to get my macbookpro in June, new macbook, Leopard, and CS3 all that together is exciting to me, now I read that no leopard until October, because of the iPhone, that sucks! I have a powerPC that rocks.
Now I have to think get a macbook now, just to find out that apple did something really cool when leopard is relaesed with a newer version of the macbook. I have had this happened in the past, and will most likely wait, and hope that I am right about waiting is worth it, but I might get impatient!
Lawrence McAlpin Apr 13
Hello fellow neophile. I’m sorry that you won’t be able to upgrade your computer and get the latest OS for free. But it saddens me to hear you say that “waiting for a ‘newer, better’ maching is a … fruitless exercise.” Friend, that’s never true.
Life is all about revelling in our technolust, accumulating the latest, greatest gadgets, whether we need them or not, whether we can afford them or not.
Give in to your neophilia and your monoamine oxidase A overlords. Buy the iPhone. Upgrade that MacBook. When the OS is ready, get that too. Sure, it will hurt your pocket book a little. Maybe a lot. But no sacrifice is too great in the name of all that is Shiny. Because this is living.
Chad Apr 13
Lars…
Thanks for encouraging my inner consumer.