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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #15 on: April 06, 2010, 07:22:20 PM »
Old OSes are still a hot subject :

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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #16 on: April 06, 2010, 07:25:53 PM »
I know of someone that's still on OS 8. Sucks to be him.
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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #17 on: April 06, 2010, 07:29:38 PM »
Why doesn't he upgrade?

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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #18 on: April 06, 2010, 07:30:26 PM »
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I know of someone that's still on OS 8. Sucks to be him.
Wow ! Up till recently, I was "still" on OS 9, and I thought that was the oldest one could go...

BTW I think OS 8.6 is mostly the same as OS 9.
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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #19 on: April 06, 2010, 07:31:03 PM »
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Why doesn't he upgrade?
The famous question
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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2010, 09:53:26 PM »
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Why doesn't he upgrade?
It is quite simple really. He either does not have the money, time, or doesn't want to. Or I could be wrong he might just be getting around to do it, but is procrastinating.
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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #21 on: April 07, 2010, 07:36:02 AM »
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Why doesn't he upgrade?

Oh, and welcome to the forums btw. :)

Thanks.

The whole Web 2.0 thing didn't happen in his world. He's got dial up so he doesn't use his connection for much other than emails.
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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #22 on: April 07, 2010, 08:08:44 AM »
If he's still using OS 8 then he has a very old Mac that probably can't run a new OS anyay. Even if it could, why spend money for such an old Mac that is too old and slow to run anything current. One good option if money is tight is to upgrade to a used Mac. Then you get an upgraded OS and newer Mac for one low price.


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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #23 on: April 07, 2010, 04:12:24 PM »
Windows 7

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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #24 on: April 07, 2010, 04:17:08 PM »
Again though: why?
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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #25 on: April 07, 2010, 04:59:49 PM »
If you want windows, get a mac and buy windows 7.
That's what I have, it's really great.


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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #26 on: April 07, 2010, 06:11:38 PM »
BTW I'm sure GameMaker, SilverCreator, etc. also run in emulators.
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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #27 on: April 07, 2010, 06:18:13 PM »
Not very well.
Actually I couldn't even get PearPc to work on windows. Emulating anything on windows is cruddy, emulating windows on a mac is... only as cruddy as running windows natively. Which is still pretty cruddy.


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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #28 on: April 07, 2010, 06:25:09 PM »
People are too obsessed with "upgrade, upgrade, upgrade" and that anything old is inherently bad and therefore worthless.

If his old Mac with OS 8 is allowing him to be productive then what the hell is wrong?

As far as OS X goes, however - no one should be using anything less than 10.4. If your Mac can run 10.2 or 10.3, it can also run 10.4.

Then it stands, the only reason you should be using 10.4 and not 10.5 is because you have a G3 processor. Even 450 MHz G4s can run Leopard just fine.

You should also have a minimum of 512 MB of RAM. Anything less will be severely degraded.

If you have an old Blue & White G3 then I can sell you a G4 processor for cheap. You can drop it in and now OS X will run faster and you can upgrade to Leopard. Fill the RAM slots up and get a faster hard drive. You will have a very usable machine.
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Re: What's your main OS?
« Reply #29 on: April 07, 2010, 06:28:42 PM »
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Not very well.
Actually I couldn't even get PearPc to work on windows. Emulating anything on windows is cruddy, emulating windows on a mac is... only as cruddy as running windows natively. Which is still pretty cruddy.


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SheepShaver (for OS 9) works very well for me.
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