Re: VS2005 NOT Compatiblke with Vista? Are you serious?!

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I have a friend with a Mac laptop that is not even 3 years old. They told her she can't run the next version of the operating system on it (or it may even be OS X, I can't remember), and if she wants to use that, she will have to buy new hardware.

I'm writing this on a 7 year old iBook running OS 10.3 (aka Panther). I got it w/ OS 8.6 went to OS 9.x then OS X. So I don't see the problem w/ a less-than-3 yr old mac running OS X - P.S. I don't see how a 3 yr old Mac doesn't have OS X. OS X is has been out more than 3 years. Someone, as usual, didn't know what he's talking about regarding Macintosh.

Despite the fact that OS X IS UNIX I can still run my OS 9 apps (but sorry, not older apps that were not "carbonized" - like you said at some point there has to be incompatability (i.e. where would you put the propeller on a jet?)). Yet I have an app that was written for OS 7 and still will run in OS 9 and/or "Classic mode" in OS X. That would be like a DOS 3.0 app running in Windoze XP.

The next release, OS 10.5 (Tiger) supports the G3 (that's about 10 years of backward compatability) but as a practical matter I think upgrading a G3 Mac is pointless. Many newer features require newer CPU guts that the G3 simply does not have.

Macintosh has changed CPUs twice now and OS fundamental overhauls twice (OS 7 & OS X), w/ nary a hiccup; I don't expect it was a perfect transition across the board, but you could hear crickets chirp over the complaints.

The most painful transistion was to OS 7.0 (about 1988). About 20%ish of apps would not work, and about 50% required modification to work; but Apple said so up front.



On 2007-02-01 03:35:37 -0600, "RobinS" <RobinS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

I'm standing by my assertion. At least for the moment.

I have a friend with a Mac laptop that is not even 3 years old. They told her she can't run the next version of the operating system on it (or it may even be OS X, I can't remember), and if she wants to use that, she will have to buy new hardware.

Another one of my friends could not upgrade her mac to whatever the OS before X is (9?), even though her mac was less than 5 years old.

My laptop is barely 2-1/2 years old. It has 2GB of memory and a Pentium M chip, and I don't think I can run all the features of Vista on it. I'm fairly certain the video driver won't support the Aero stuff. (It's an Intel GME5255 or something like that; I have to look it up.)

At any rate, it's really dogging when I run Visual Studio, and I only have two ideas on how to fix it.

(1) Remove McAfee (I've turned active scanning off, but I'm feeling suspicious about the whole thing since I upgraded to the latest version),

(2) Buy a new computer. (I've already scanned it for spyware and viruses.)

(I'm not mentioning (3) Don't use Visual Studio ;-)

And yet, I'm not bitter about having to upgrade my hardware to run Vista. Guess I just figure it goes with the job.

Robin S.
Ts'i mahnu uterna ot twan ot geifur hingts uto.
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"gregarican" <greg.kujawa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1170253617.894923.120850@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Not sure that you're 100% on target with this assertion. You can
upgrade older Mac hardware to OS X. The cutoff is upgrading an old
first generation iMac I think. That's too old to run the new system
software, but then again it is 8 years old IIRC.

On Jan 31, 2:54 am, "RobinS" <Rob...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Have you ever noticed that nobody ever slams Apple for the same thing?
About every 3 years, if you want the new version of the operating system,
you have to
buy a new Mac. And *THEY* make their own hardware, so they get you coming
*and* going.

Robin S.


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