Libor Kubín Have you ever thought about how beneficial it is to always have the latest version of software or hardware? Does the field of information technology have a patent on perpetual mobile?
A bit of history
When I started making a living from computer graphics in the first half of the 90s, I "needed" to always have the latest version of the system and work program. Each new version was a small holiday. There have been significant improvements and new features. Diskettes with (mostly) stolen programs circulated among acquaintances. The successful installation of arbitrary hardware and software has been the subject of long debates and arguments in restaurant establishments. The new PC cost about as much money as I made in a year. It took a year and a half to make money on the Mac. The speed of the processors ranged from 25 MHz upwards, the hard disks had a maximum size of several hundred MB. I spent a week making the A2 size poster.
In the second half of the 90s, computers began to be routinely equipped with CD (and a little later DVD) drives. On larger hard drives, newer versions of the system and programs took up more space. You can buy a PC for about four months' salary, a Mac for six. The rule is starting to apply that you replace processors, graphics cards and disks in your PC with each new version of Windows. You can still use your Mac after four years and two major system upgrades. Processors exceed the frequency of 500 MHz. I will make an A2 poster in two days.
At the turn of the millennium, I find that I almost always have a more powerful computer at home and newer versions of programs than my employers. The situation is becoming somewhat schizophrenic. At work, I press keyboard shortcuts that don't work, I look for functions that don't exist in older versions of graphics programs. The overall chaos is completed by the use of Czech and English versions of the software. Thanks to the Internet, more and more people "own" the latest versions of any programs, even if they don't even use 10% of them. Getting the news is not a matter of a week, but of days or rather hours.
And what is the situation today?
From my point of view, programs and operating systems bring evolution, but no revolution. Some bugs are fixed, a few features are added, and the new version is out. Today, a decently equipped computer can be purchased for one or two paychecks. But the computer still starts up like it did five or ten years ago - one to three minutes (unless, of course, you use SSD disks). My work performance has neither improved nor deteriorated dramatically over the past five years. The ceiling is still my speed at giving instructions to the computer. The computing power is still plenty sufficient for ordinary things. I don't edit video, I don't do simulations, I don't render 3D scenes.
My home computer is running an ancient version of Mac OS X 10.4.11. I am using versions of programs that I once bought seven years ago for hard money. It works fine for my needs, but… I'm getting stuck. Some documents that I need to process cannot be opened in the normal way, so I have to transfer them to lower versions or convert them. The cycle is accelerating and older versions are no longer supported. Circumstances will probably force me to install the latest system and buy an upgrade. I'm hoping it will "tighten up" my computer and I won't completely change my hardware.
Infinite loop
The moral usability of both hardware and software is shortened. So will we be forced to keep old computers for old documents, because the company 123 has already ceased to exist and the data created in a few years either cannot be transferred at all or it means creating completely new documents? What will I do when one fine day I can't start my computer and it can't even be repaired? Or is the solution to play an endless game: upgrade software every two years and new hardware every four years? And what will our children say about the piles of plastic we leave them as a legacy?
For Apple fans, it is amazing that the company's market share is growing, more computers, players and tablets are being sold. Progress just doesn't stop. Before anything. Apple is a company like any other and tries to maximize profits and minimize costs. Over the past ten years, the quality of computer work has been fluctuating and rather declining. To save money, it is assembled in China. And paradoxically, the necessary parts from all over the world are gathered here.
In recent years, Apple (and not only Apple) has deployed a very effective marketing strategy to force customers to buy new goods. The in effect is emphasized (who doesn't have the latest model, as if he didn't even exist). A great example is the iPhone. The less than three-year-old model can no longer be updated to the latest full-fledged version of iOS, and there are various artificial restrictions (it is not possible to record video) that force you to buy the new product. Unlike last year, Apple did not even wait for the summer launch of the new iPhone this year. He stopped supporting the 3G model more than seven months earlier. It may be good for Apple's business, but not for me as a customer. So will I be buying a new model every two years without changing the battery in my phone once? At a price that is plus or minus the same as the Mac mini?
Computers and smart technology are all around us. Dependence on them is constantly growing. Is there a way out of this tightening loop?
Previously, a computer and software cost 100 and lasted 000 years. Today it costs 10 and lasts for 20 years. No matter how I calculate, the result is the same. ;))
It may have cost 60.000 before, but it didn't last 10 years by any chance. On the contrary, I think that progress was faster before. If you look at all the components today, they are all slightly improved and you can run the latest games even on a 5-year-old computer. It wasn't like that before ;-)
In 2001, we bought a complete desktop PC including a monitor for 60 CZK. Already in 000 it was an extremely slow sale, in 2003 we didn't even try to sell it, but threw it away.
Myth: I have a three-year-old computer (bought as a set at the time for the best performance/price ratio) and today's games are only rarely run on my 24″. And even if I had bought an absolute high-end back then, I wouldn't have been much better off.
HTC churns out a phone every quarter and no one stops…Nokia the same…
Rather, if you want to use the iPhone 3G, for example, you should accept that its lifespan is already well past its zenith (it was manufactured for the year 2008 - 3 years, that's a long time in the field of mobile phones and it always has been, only the Nokia 5110 was able to be mobile phone of the year 2000 despite the fact that it was introduced in 1998, since then the moral life of most phones was 1-2 years at most). However, where is the HTC Legend from last year? Apple, with its strategy of 1 model per year, goes against the trends, Nokia, HTC... where no one knows the phones from Q1 in Q4... Yes, Apple also uses this strategy, but you chose the most decent player on the market to complain about it ..a bit unfortunate.
That's what the spewing is all about. It doesn't matter if the period for new models is 3 months or a year, HTC or Apple. It's just marketing.
Moral lifespan 1-2 years? What about actual lifespan? The phone is fully functional, you can make calls from it and the battery lasts all day. Does it seem normal and economical for you to pay the sum of CZK 2-16 every 20 years for a non-subsidized phone or about half if you subscribe to the operator for the next 000 years? The new version of the iPhone 2 can change wallpapers, has a better camera and takes video. Nothing fundamentally new and groundbreaking compared to the 4GS. And do I have to pay for it every two years? And since there is a need to increase profits, after 3 years we will stop supporting the model?
First generation iPhone - support ended after 3 years, second generation after 2 years and 5 months, iPhone 3GS after ???
I have exactly the same dilemma. How much I myself am a victim of marketing and the inner desire to own the latest… At what cost…
On the desktop PC, it solved itself :-) I don't play games much anymore, so my 5-year-old, overclocked computer with upgraded memory and disk serves as an archive for photos and as a backup... I don't even try to start new games and the new graphics I don't want to invest. My desire to play is completely fulfilled by the iPhone/iPad…
As a basic desktop computer I use a Macmini of the previous generation and it will definitely last for some time. How long? I estimate it to be about two years, but maybe it will be longer. It depends on what Lion's demands will be.
But what excites me is the iPhone... I have a 3GS, when the 4 was introduced, I thought I'd get this easily... but I'll have to go to the 5... More memory - operational and perhaps storage... More powerful processor. I probably can't resist that... It's not about work in this case, I'd be fine with what I have. But I will want new games, I know that... I believe that I am not the only one and that Apple feels the same way. At least the current approach seems to be that the majority of iPhone owners change it roughly every two years... And yes, I assume that Apple's support for the 3GS will end three years after its launch.
There is only one way to get out of it, not to use it... It's the same as with televisions, cars... New TVs offer more viewing angles, but the TV program signal is mostly SD... Still, people - including me - buy them. I do occasionally watch DVDs, but if it were absolutely necessary or I would sit on my ass, then again, no... If cars were cheaper (or our economy was more efficient), we would buy new cars after three to five years... flat the new one - apart from a bunch of electronic assistants, it doesn't bring anything so dizzying and necessary... I would say that the desire to have the latest things is somehow part of human nature - at least a Western type of person. We mostly don't need the new things, because the old ones are no longer useful, but because we want them. And companies sometimes help this by ceasing to support the previous variants.
Mr. Kubín, you are currently complaining about the principles of the functioning of the market economy.... this is how it works all over the world... I agree with you from a human point of view, I am not at all a supporter of this globalized cesspool, on the other hand, I still object that Apple is one of the few companies where the moral life and value of their establishment is relatively (for the poverty) big and the only thing that was wrong so far was that 3G got an update to 4.X and it became difficult to use. Otherwise, you can continue to use it. You can use it to call, write emails, listen to music, use applications up to 4.2.1 (all of them so far).
It just has a small RAM…. it has the same as the 2007 model, do you seriously think anyone will support a 2007 model with memory in 2011??
This is not how this society works, this society works on the principle of consumption of everything and everywhere.
As I say, as a person I agree with you, but I do not understand why you are crying on this wrong "grave".
respectively.. to be more precise, the principles of consumer society, which are related to each other.
With macbooks in general, however, I notice that this trend is not so dizzying, how many times I read on the forums of various apple owners how such and such a model from 2005 or older... this doesn't seem so terrible to me, especially considering that Apple is doing its best for recyclability.
I don't think anyone would cry if Apple didn't screw up the 4.x fw for 3G the way they screwed it up. That fw can practically do nothing extra, it only slows down 3G to an unbearable limit. Staying with 3.x fw is not a solution as many apps don't maintain backwards compatibility.
I myself own a 3G and I was satisfied with the fw series 4.x. I continue to use the iPhone, but unfortunately I am no longer satisfied. Apple has lost my trust with this and I'm afraid I'll take that into account when I replace my phone.
And it's not only the 4.x fw, but also the constant problems with the alarm clock and the gradual "cutting off" of older models by disabling functions for older models that it would handle without problems (for example, displaying the value of the remaining battery power in percent, on the 3GS something will surely be found, and if not now, then with the next version of fw, it will certainly be).
PS: I have had 3G since the beginning of sales in the Czech Republic, it definitely did not have support for three years, but only two years
I completely agree that this time is somehow turned on its head and I think it's not only about the support but also the products and I don't mean only PCs and phones. a person paid extra for a brand and had a guaranteed quality that lasted, now there is no manufacturer interested in something lasting five or more years heh
In addition, the iPhone 3G - I think it's great that there was some support for at least 3 years... show me one mobile phone manufacturer that adds functions to your phone 3 years after purchase... Mostly it's the case that what you buy stays with it and not I will take care of that for a couple of years after the new version of the product is released. 3G isn't Grandpa yet, but it's definitely a Veteran...
After all, everyone can decide how they want, right? I need a 3g plan because I want it and I like it, even if it's not the fastest. It's not about money, if I count the differences between selling and switching to 3gs and then 4g, it's roughly the same as when I switch from 3g to 4g/5g, so it's important, everyone does what they want, no one is forcing them to go anywhere, I bought 3g without copy paste and now I have to curse Apple that I don't have recorded videos, etc.?
I bought Ip4 in December 2010, mainly because there were reports that Ip5 would be in the summer. If I didn't know this, I still have all 3gs.
Now, when I found out that ip5 was supposed to be in the fall, I "revived" I can finally say to myself: I've been IN for at least 1 year! But if the ip5 will only have a better camera and a 3mm wider display and the same design, Stív won't see me in the queue for the ip5...
Apple is good at marketing. To make a queue for your product today like at Favorites in 1990, to sell out everything, to make waiting lists....honor to whom, honor to him.
HONOR TO WORK
Even though different companies try to manipulate their customers with different marketing, the rule still applies that the customer is the boss.
Those who create something on a computer know that the most important thing is only the result of that creation and not the brand or the "age" of the computer.
On the other hand, I also respect typical consumers who need to buy a new car, a new laptop, a new mobile phone, etc. every year... It is their decision and their money.
Technical about 3G, video can be shot using 3rd party applications... (it's crappy, but it's possible).
I also have an old Phone and several hundred apps, which motivates me to buy a new iPhone model. In my opinion, the iPhone 4 was not very successful for Apple, so we'll see if I buy an iPhone 5 in the fall or... :)
Exactly, I have the same opinion, I bought a 4 for my girlfriend, but I have a 3GS myself and apart from the display, I wasn't impressed with the 4 (however, my girlfriend is excited about it). I think the 5 is going to be the bomb….wish they used liquid metal for the back. But even without him it will be a blast.
I sure hope so.
I'm writing about official support, not that it can't be done in "some" way.
I also know about the DTP studio in Prague, where until last year they published books under Windows 95 and PageMaker 6.52; in short, they had a debugged workflow and since they didn't make interactive books or complex color catalogs/magazines, it worked. But it's just a curiosity.
I offer three neglected views of Libor's article (he only looks at it from the user's point of view):
– Dissatisfaction with rapid development can be a plus for competition and the search for alternatives. Why pay for a new InDesign every year? I can stay with the old one, or try another solution (and maybe I'll find that it's enough for my limited needs - iCalamus, Scribus...) For phones, like iPhone > Android...
– Another view is technological progress. If it weren't for users who upgrade year after year, there wouldn't be the money or the will for such rapid technological progress.
– And thirdly, there is a subjective need. If I text, make phone calls and sometimes surf or take pictures of my wife on the iPhone 3GS, switching to the 4 is clearly unnecessary. However, if I read longer texts daily on the way, if I use the iPhone as an e-book reader, the transition to 4 is necessary: otherwise you will damage your eyes.
So I agree with Libor, I just think it's a topic where slowly every opinion is right, it's just a matter of which point of view you look at it. (And that they could still be invented! A philosophical view, a modern view vs. the past, a church view (the iPhone is Satan) :) etc.)
Thanks Jakub for expanding my thoughts.
1/ It seems to me that the search for alternatives is such a dead end. A few giants remained. If a young and start-up company tries to establish itself, over time it is almost always swallowed up by a corporation or survives or, in the worst case, goes bankrupt.
2/ Either I'm too demanding or it's just small evolutionary steps. For example, in the Adobe software, there will be several minor improvements, one major innovation, and the user interface and keyboard shortcuts will be completely overhauled in one or two versions. Even at the turn of the millennium, I had the impression that something fundamental was happening. Not nowadays.
3/ Yes, I can use software that is, for example, 10 years old, but then again I solve the new/old version problem with the supplied data, what works and what doesn't.
4/ It is precisely in information technology that the string of progress is played. But do you change your washing machine, vacuum cleaner or stove every 3 years? Just because there is an improved version 2.0.1? And will it happen that after 3 years the supplier tells you that they will no longer support your model?
4/
I find it unfair to compare it with a washing machine or a stove. These are single-purpose devices, and should be compared only with similar devices (i.e., the analogy from the IT field to the stove will not be the iPhone, but rather the Kindle).
I think it's fair to write that this aggressive approach to the customer (e.g. artificially restricting the functionality of the product in order to motivate the customer to buy a new product) is characteristic of only a few companies, among which, by the way, Apple is also included.
The dangerous thing is that this unfair method can also inspire other companies that are lured by the vision of a quick profit (such as Apple).
Fortunately, the market and competition work, the customer can choose (e.g. switch to a mobile phone with an alternative OS) or, with his uncompromising attitude, force the manufacturer to change his behavior.
Although Apple no longer supports the iPhone3G, the developers of applications in the appstore are not stupid, and therefore most of their applications (even new ones) are tested and compatible with iOS4.0. These smart people know that a larger circle of potential customers is directly proportional to the amount of their potential profit - so most applications are currently available even for the unsupported iPhone3G.
Say WOW
Do you remember the advertising slogan of MS Vista?
That's when I bought a new NTB with Vista and I immediately said WOW.
It wasn't long before I bought a full mac after installing OSX86.
It is precisely the longer moral life and functionality of macs that win me over after 20 years of use
led to apple. The main advantage of OSX is ergonomics, the same from Tiger.
For example, try installing office 2010, just finding where to print a document is a treat.
Everything has its ups and downs and the human body ages and performance decreases.
For apple it is still tolerable, compared to vista, w7, and the upcoming W8.
In 20 years of using Windows, haven't you been able to learn the shortcut Ctrl+P or use the file -> print option?
Or are you confused that in MS Office 2010 the file entry is replaced by the Windows character?
After all, it's almost the same as in OS X... :)
"So we will be forced to maintain old computers for old documents, because company 123 has already ceased to exist, and the data created in a few years either cannot be transferred at all, or it means creating completely new documents?"
After all, this is where virtualization comes from (Parallels, VMware fusion, etc.). I myself have Win NT with Wordperfect, QXP 3.32 and PageMaker 5, 6 and 6.5 on my Mac, due to the "revival" of old rates. New software next to the old one is a better solution than whining. ;)
So be it, I will virtualize, but this means that in addition to the last system, I will have several other versions of systems for individual programs. Different versions of Windows have slightly different controls, GUIs and options. So as a user I didn't help myself much. Where has the simplicity of control gone?
Here it can be seen that you are still outside the world of virtualization. Try it. Here, too, development progressed compared to VirtualPC. :)) If your virtualized system is integrated into OS X, you don't know about it at all. You simply have the PageMaker icon in the dock and the whole thing behaves like a native application, you don't have to worry about it running under Win95...
Even if you constantly attack win vista, 7 and I see 8 as well, it will always remain the No. 1 system
Simply slandering Mercedes or win is pointless. They will always be number ONE. No one will ever change that, but competition in the form of Apple, even if negligible, is good - at least it pushes Gates's wife to the perfection of the win system.
I recommend IE9 - try it (if mac supports it)
HORST
Horst, thank you for your opinion. But please, before you start dishing out wisdom, try to find out something about the given topic/problem. Internet Explorer 5.2.3 was the last native version designed for Mac. Microsoft released it in 2003. IE 9 is only for Windows Vista and 7.
Take care Horst. :)
According to research by the StatCounter agency, in February 2011, 94,6% of PC users in the Czech Republic used MS WIndows, and Apple OS X was used by less than 3%.
It is also interesting that almost half of the 94,6% of computers with Windows are represented by the approximately 9-year-old MS Windows XP. From this, one could conclude that Win XP is a very high-quality, stable and popular OS despite its age.
In this respect, Apple cannot compete with computers with an OS from Microsoft at all, but then again it gives the company a certain stamp of exclusivity and luxury. And what are we talking about, a Macbook Pro for 50.000 CZK will look much better on the table at a meeting than an ordinary Acer laptop for 8.000 CZK. :).
There are few MACs, but they are good for representation
Ok, I still say Air is great, but with win. Super design, however, performance and win7,8 compatibility is awesome. Without fear that someone will send me a cooperation offer to the company and I will try to open the document for 2 days, because Comrade Jobs does not like the company that created the format of this document.... It's just that win is comfortable, calm, etc.
Horst, how can you compare Mercedes with Windows? One excels in quality and the other only in quantity.
OK.. 3G didn't get MT, it didn't get wallpapers, but did you try to connect it via cydia? I do Horza.. iP 3G simply can't handle it.. So you won't get new features, BUT! As you say yourself.. Your phone works, you have more functions there than when you bought it, and Apple will pay for security errors with smaller updates.. So where is the problem? I use 3G all the time, I'm always satisfied, and as you say, why do I need to change the wallpaper? 3G can record videos. There's an app.. It's terrible.. That's true.. But that's because the iP3G doesn't have a camera, just a camera. (The exact opposite of the iPad 2.. good video, terrible photos) Is there anything preventing you from using the iP 3G as you have been using it so far? Don't be defensive.. Apple computers can be used for about 4-5 years... The problem is software.. I agree.. But Apple doesn't produce it (perhaps for the final cut)... I am a supporter of the opinion that at least one OS upgrade should be free in the case of Apple .. Ancestors just go out a lot and don't bring any big improvements...
I tried it. If the PNG shadow images are deleted and the logging daemons are disabled (there are several), then there is quite enough memory for both wallpaper and applications.
Interestingly, on my old 80486 I had a desktop wallpaper and monitor resolution of 800x600. I ran a graphical environment with a total of 40 MiB of RAM, and often had a web browser and mail client running there. Take a Symbian on the Nokia XM 5800, or Windows Mobile phones (such as HTC Cruise, which de facto has the same HW as the iPhone), on which multitasking works.
The fact that I now have more features on my iPhone 3G than when I bought it is little consolation, because when I bought it, it didn't have many of these basic features. After two years, they got it to the condition in which they were supposed to sell it. I will completely forget the fact that Safari had so many bugs in the first six months after the purchase that it could not be used seriously (when I remember that crash, I get angry even today).
Apple could easily have gone the route of app and system optimization. Instead, IMHO he deliberately crippled the 4.x fw for 3G (as I already wrote, I don't see why there should be such a performance drop when he added almost no new features).
Also, Apple could have enabled functions that absolutely cannot affect performance: battery percentage indicator, orientation lock, AirPrint, or page search in Safari. Some of these functions were deactivated for 3G even during the so-called "support".
There is a way out of this. But you have to listen carefully. If you have eyes, look with them. If you have a soul, feel your feelings.
And use the force :)
I think Apple is one of the best companies when it comes to supporting older devices. It should not be forgotten that the iPhone 3G had only 128MB of RAM, the iPhone 3GS had 256MB of RAM and the current iPhone4 has 512MB of RAM. Similarly, the frequency of the processor and the performance of the graphics card also increased. It's really hard to expect the iPhone 3G to do everything the iPhone 4 does, when it has much weaker hardware. For comparison, it is common that phone manufacturers do not support newer versions, even if they have sufficiently powerful hardware. For example, Sony-Ericsson will make a phone with Android 2.1, but will not deliver an upgrade to version 2.2 or 2.3, even if the phone could handle it. The version directly from Google can be used, but then the user no longer has the programs that Sony-Ericsson supplied there. Many manufacturers cough up software upgrades for all devices they have already stopped producing.
I'm curious how the hardware requirements will increase on OSX 10.7, because I have a 13" MBP from 2009 and I plan to buy an SSD drive and 8GB of RAM after the release. I hope it will last at least 3 years after that. At the moment, the performance of the 2-year-old MBP is quite sufficient for what I do on it.
Nobody blames Apple for not being able to play the latest iPhone 3 game on 4G. But why don't I have the function of displaying the battery capacity in percentages, searching on a page in Safari, orientation lock, or even AirPrint on 3G? Why did the system response drop so drastically in version 4.x when it brought almost no news? Why was it that I used to be able to listen to music, browse the web (or type) without my phone jerking and the music "skipping" and now I can't? These are perfectly normal complaints.
There is no point in arguing. I agree with you that Apple is intentionally restricting their older products to "force" users to buy new products. The iPhone is a great example of this. But on the other hand, that's all Apple can do, and on the contrary, you have the power to buy, for example, a phone from another manufacturer. And this is how it is with everything (including the mentioned SW and HW:).
The fact that customers do not realize this and allow themselves to be controlled and forced to do anything is rather the fault of the "less smart" customers.
I use an iPhone in which I have purchased applications for approx. €700. If I'm being honest, I find myself using 5-10 programs or games here and there out of the several hundred apps. And the fact that I let myself be influenced and sent the remaining €700 to the appstore in small amounts is just my stupidity. :)
I compared Apple with other phone manufacturers and the fact is that few manufacturers will give an update to an old phone if they release a new one.
As for the iPhone 3G, iOS 4.x is more demanding than iOS 3.x, and if a program uses something from iOS 4.x, an update must be made. If iOS 4.x occupies more memory and uses more processor, then there is less memory and performance for applications and therefore they are slower. Only Apple knows what and why they added to version 4.0.
I would also like to add an opinion. A year and a half ago, I bought an iP3G, then still with iOS3.x, at the time when I bought it, it was still only available together with the iP3GS, I expected that the phone would be supported at least during the warranty period. I don't need functions like AirPrint, video recording, or Wi-Fi hotspot, but I work with my phone every day and I need secure access to the Internet. What a surprise for me when Apple released iOS4.3 with patches and security fixes and I couldn't update my phone during the warranty period. Since I often use internet banking, I have several email accounts, a secure internet is quite important to me. Apple ended this for me, I sold the iP3G and bought a phone from another manufacturer, namely the HTC HD7, Microsoft at least guarantees me security patches (even on XP they are still available). I don't particularly like Microsoft, but when it comes to updating older software, nobody cares about it.
I have the same opinion as the author. I would still be somewhere with the 8.1 system and the good old power PC. Unfortunately, the relationship between hardware and software on a Mac is a chapter unto itself. Why can I run a program that is intended for Win 7 at most in W95 without any problems, why on a mac soft that runs on 10.6.5, but not on 10.6.7? Because of the old software, which cost a lot of money, I have to have virtualized 10.5, 10,4, and 10.6, preferably in several versions. And to make matters worse, Apple decided to drop Power PC platform emulation support in Lion, so I'll be missing out on other indispensable programs!
All of rotten capitalism depends on the sheeple to buy. Otherwise we all go to hell. Everyone is more or less dependent on each other and no one can afford to produce something that lasts 20-30 years. Hand on heart. how old is your refrigerator, freezer, iron, wall, bed, TV, tower, carpet at home ….. The good old totalitarian things still serve today (iron 1972, freezers 1985 and 1987, wall 1980, Tv until recently Tesla Color from the eighties … And all the above those appointed will most likely survive me. Capitalism simply cannot afford that.
I have been dissatisfied with Apple for several years. Although it is incomprehensible to some, compared to what it produced in the eighties and up to the mid-nineties, today it is just a Chinese aushus, although it sounds good. Compare the old Macintoshes with Motorola or the 601-603 PPC and even the G3 were not exactly design pieces , but it was still honest blacksmith work (the same can be said about the PC 286, which you could easily stand on), and it was something exceptional for that time and one could rely on them. The Macintosh was simply a closed unit, but nothing was missing and, unlike a PC, it was more than enough for everything. Back in the days of the G4, one company was able to overclock the G4 from 450 Mhz to almost 3 Ghz, only by cooling the Peltieri cells, they wanted $10 for it, but it looked pretty cool and it was probably around the time of the Pentium 4???
(Today, the Power PC 7 runs at 5GHZ, what would it be like today...)
Today I just deleted Tygra and replaced it with Ubuntu (on G4). Surprisingly, it works and hopefully it will last him at least two or three more years.
1) Thanks to the author for the article, I have exactly the same opinion.
For example, I already have a "damaged" Macbook and I need a more powerful computer at home, I will not give up the OS X system, and the HW is also from Apple somewhere else than all the latest manufacturers. Well, I look and look... and I find out that I won't actually choose another computer. New iMacs are as expensive as a dog and are built from notebook components, which means that the HW becomes obsolete even faster than with a normal computer and is more expensive.
In addition, you should try to find the most expensive all-in-one computer on Alga, it's ugly, but the parameters are better than the iMac in all respects, and above all, it doesn't even cost half as much.
And for 50 for a computer that will slowly become unusable in 000 years, I really don't want to be self-righteous.
Already in 2003 it was an extremely slow sale, in 2004 we didn't even try to sell it, but threw it away.
An interesting thing happened to me earlier this week. I needed a document with a booklet that I was creating in Quark 1999 in 4. Since I only had a CD drive back then and the disk held 650 MB, I zipped the document folders so that it fit on one CD.
The last time I looked at this CD was sometime in 2002 with system 9. But what was my surprise now when the zip archives that I copied to my desktop could not be unzipped, I don't think I need to describe that. I've tried both the system Unzip and Stuffit Expander with the same result - unzipping error. Finally, I had a saving grace, I started my old G4, which the children have in their room, in system 9, where I unzipped the archives without any problem. Of course also with Stuffit Expander. This experience convinced me that the old G4 does not belong in the old iron...