Wow! Grumpy indeed. I am always in the notion that Apple never “forces” users anything down their throats, upgrading to Sierra being one of them. It’s not even in Software Update; you have to grab it from the Mac App Store yourself. It isn’t just thrown at you like the other boys tried, at their very best I must say, when they pushed users running Windows 7 or 8.1 to 10. Of course, that isn’t happening now the free offer has expired, but you get the idea. Just my £0.02 worth and will get out of my soapbox before I say anything I will later regret.
> On 28 Sep 2016, at 15:34, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Totally skewed. Apple has not made the decision for you, you did, as we all > do, to press the upgrade button or not to press the upgrade button. > > Good luck with the Ultra Book. Nothing will change with that, only the > names. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > Are We Alone in the Universe? > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > > On 9/28/2016 7:26 AM, Martin Brown wrote: >> Yes Anne, I can live quite well with El Capitan. I think the only thing in >> Sierra that would have been useful was the removal of the focus bug along >> with a few others. Not a show stopper however. >> >> The thing that annoys me is, that Apple have decided to not even give me the >> opportunity to try the new operating system for myself. Yes, it might well >> have been slower than on the latest and greatest. And, yes I might have had >> to go back to El Capitan because of that. Nevertheless, I do not like the >> decision taken out of my own hands by others. >> >> As I have said, El Capitan is fine. I am now old enough to have convinced my >> ego that contentment is not to be found in the latest offering from the boys >> in Silicone Valley. It was my intention to purchase something more portable, >> such as the Mac Book Air, in the early part of 2017. However, I shall >> instead go down the Ultra Book road running Windows 10. I can buy the said >> machine with a good speck of 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD drive for a lot >> less than anything on offer from Apple. OK, the components may not be the >> best that money can buy, but do they have to be in the throw-away world of >> today. >> >> The advice I would offer to anyone buying a Mac is quite simply this, >> purchase the lowest, and thus the cheapest, speck that you can get away with >> for your needs. Don't even consider extra RAM or more hard disc space in the >> hope of prolonging the lifetime of your investment. I understand, but do not >> agree with, the market forces that guide a lot of decisions being made by >> manufacturers which are not in the best interest of consumers. Having been >> given the operating system free of charge might not be such a good idea >> after all. But, then I never thought it was because in such offerings there >> is always a hidden cost. >> Take care Anne. >> From grumpy Marty >> > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > <Ancient_Aliens.vcf> -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
