[geeks] DVD install of MacOS 10.5.3 or 10.5.4

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Aug 1, 2008, at 15:35 , Nadine Miller wrote:

> /me tries but fails to resist comparing 10.0 to Solaris  
> 2.0...recalling that it took Sun up to 2.3 for it to be useable, and  
> 2.5.1 to be even close to "bullet proof".  All things considered, I  
> think Apple is doing quite all right, OS-wise.

Not sure how that makes Apple different.

MacOS was pretty rocky for years, with bad UI errors and poor  
performance.

It was really 10.3 that I first liked a lot, and Tiger that really  
seemed to finally come together and also was the last big speed jump.

For Solaris, it was version 8 before I started using it on purpose.

> Remember, though, that most people were still on dial-up in those  
> days and many computers didn't even have an ethernet port. Very few  
> people had the ability to DL a 50MB update, much less a 500MB  
> update.  That said, I'd be a little ticked if I was out in the  
> sticks on dial-up today with a shiny new copy of Leopard and could  
> not at least get "update" media shipped to me.

Methinks we have abandoned media too early.  I still need media a lot,  
and often prefer it, or at least an easy way to get/update it.

I really don't buy any of the arguments that Apple cannot make updated  
releases available.  Their users need it, regardless of their reasons/ 
excuses for not providing it.

BTW: I know people who have only dialup, and I believe that situation  
will exist for some time, and yes, it really sucks downloading MacOS  
and Windows updates.

I've had to do it myself more than a few times.

Most everyone else offers media, cheap, and I hate to see it going  
away given how useful a service it is.

Networks fail, and some machines don't have them at all.

-- 
Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com