Free Upgrade For $20!

When is 'free' not 'free'?

Soon as you bought that POS apple 'computer' COUGH. Excuse me, had to hack that flem 'apple' out of my throat.

Why is 'apple' still in business since they went against 'big blue' back in the early '80's?

I honestly dont know... massive cash reserves?

So they sell a machine with a DVD player and no software. And now they charge you for the software to make the DVD player work?

Well if this isn't the perfect excuse to use unauthorized copies of software I don't know what is.

What's twenty bucks to a Mac user? You pay through the nose for everything else, so why is this even news?

Overall, i'd say Apples products are weak. Ive been using Mac's ever since 1995 for music sequencing but now running software like Cubase/Nuendo/Reason/Acid on a Athlon 1.4 Gh, even my dual G4 can't even come close speed wise. Like 3 years ago that was unthinkable. Ask any pro musician.

And not a single audio software works with OSx. Midi support isnt even there.

Im pretty much done with Mac's. Huh..i never thought i'd say that...

allegedly.

say it fast 10 times

Death to Apple! Death to Apple!! DEATH TO APPLE!!!

win2k -> winXP 200$
mac osX -> 10.1 20$

sounds like a good deal to me if mac is your thing, and I wasn't too impressed with winxp, struck me as being win2k w/ a make over.

wow...this is very Microsoft of them

$20? bfd
compared to how we're continually rogered by M$ this is hardly worth the hoo-ha now is it?
:)

Big Whoop...
just make a copy at work or split the price with a few Mac buddies.

Granted... Apple sez the price is simply S&H and the upgrade is essentially free, but $20US for S&H is pretty lame.
Anything over $10 for "S&H" is pretty questionable.

I've been a bit disappointed with Apple lately. Although I do think this is quite a stupid thing, there are much bigger things to worry about.

Basically, Apple hasn't been as consumer-friendly as it would like to think.
Example: The G4 Cube. Hailed by magazines as design genius, but there were a few major problems. First of all, it was made of some horrible plastic material that cracked randomly during the manufacturing process... Then there was the "no fan, no noise" promise they made... Except the NVIDIA video card that came with the thing had its own fan. OOPS!!

Also their support is really bad. They have a message board on their web site but they don't actual use it; instead it's for users to answer each others' questions. The search engine for their "Knowlege Base" is awful. Then there's the phone support.

Now, I'm used to nice tech support. I had AOL for a while (shh!) and they had free tech support at an 800 number. Now I have Earthlink DSL, and their tech support is free as well. I could call up a repair shop, and they could help me over the phone.

But alas. If I want help from Apple themselves, I have to give them fifty dollars per incident which basically means that if my QuickTime is fucked up, I give them fifty bucks to make sure it works. If it's a professional program or a difficult problem, they charge two hundred dollars]g.

I don't know how Microsoft does it. It may be worse or it may be better. But either way...
This sucks.

Also: What happened to Apple's devotion to gaming support?

-Swivel Master
http://www.mp3.com/swivelmaster/

Hey, PC boys- you all bought the win95 upgrade "patch" for $80 to $120 (win98, all of which should've been in win95 in the first place and that was a smaller patch than OSX 10.1 :P

So, say I prayer for apple, PC boys, cause god only know what microsoft OS's would look like or run like without apple to steal from.

5 dollars would be more reasonable..

price of cd and making it + shipping.

it doesn't matter tho. the mac lovers will pay for anything! BAHAHAHA!

Apple is the Novell of the Computer market.

Yeah they shoulda just released another OS next year and called it OSX SE or ME... ala MS...

You're a big fat dork if you actually BUY your operating system.

How is this any different from what Microsoft has done? You can download the umpteen million security patches, or you can update to the latest version of Windows 9X for $89. If you want a stable version of Windows, it'll cost you at least $200. And the NT service packs are available on CD for $14.95 if you can't download them.

I think that Windows 2000 was a great one, though; I'm still running on no service packs, and the only hotfix I have is to get 128-bit SSL on IE. Win2K is worth the $300 I never spent (I got the CD at a RoadShow back when I was still working at CompUSSR).

thatll teach you to use inferior software! now go buy windows xp!

APPLE HAS BEEN * M I C R O S O F T E D *

600MB for an OS upgrade? holy crap, it's like installing another OS!

Damn...overpriced computers and overpriced upgrades. What's next?

You'd have to put coins every time you want to use your MAC?

Hmm. Well if this is true it aint very good at all. Damn Steve (Jobs), you're doing so much right, and still so very much wrong. Are you gonna turn the company or not?

When even the hardcore Mac fanboys start complaining, you know they're doing something wrong..

/ [V]

A 650MB patch is a bit disturbing... what features did they leave out besides DVD playback?

With a patch that big you'd think Cornered Rat was creating Apple's OS's.

Perhaps a $20 mail-in-rebate for those who need the patch would be nice.

it would only take 6 months to a year to receive it

haha, typical Apple move...

make you pay through the teeth for everything you get from them...

Those faggots.

And another thing: how much of this 600 megabytes is code? And how much of that is code vital for system operation and features? I'd be very angry to find out that the hundreds of OS X themes is taking up at least 100 megs of this.

ahhh
now all we gotta wait for is for someone to charge for linux

er wait
never mind
/me sits down

I'm forced to run OS 9.1 on my iceBook due to 10(x)'s lack of DVD support, amongst others. It just blows to have to spend $20.00 on an update, sort of reminds me of Microsoft ;)

An upgrade is free when you burn copies of it...

Burn baybee burn! Yeah!!!

Wow, that, um..... rules

OMG APPLE IS A MONOPOLY THAT MUST BE STOPPED BECAUSE IT IS HURTING THE CONSUMERS AND PUTTING OUT FAULTY PRODUCTS!

jesus, apple, this is like win98 -> win98se with even less changes.