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

If anyone doesn't know what they're talking about, it's the guy at the
Genius bar at the Apple store who told my friend she would not be able to
upgrade her laptop with the next version of the Mac OS that comes out.

I will point out that I wasn't *complaining* about it. I was just saying
that Microsoft gets a lot of crap for this and Apple doesn't. More complex
software requires better hardware enables more complex software requires
better hardware enables more complex software requires better hardware and
so on and so on.

Frankly, I *like* the Macs, and if I could afford 2 computers and had the
space for them, I'd buy one. I don't feel confident enough to install Vista
and Visual Studio and .Net 3.0 and SQLServer on a Mac, but would love to
hear if anybody has gotten that to work!

Robin S.
Ts'i mahnu uterna ot twan ot geifur hingts uto.
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"Bob Jones" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
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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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