Bye Bye Vista

jryantech

tiersten wrote: »

Rumour is that Apple are going to be introducing cheaper models to appeal to the lower end markets. Global recession and all that...

Sweet! I can see it now..

MacBook Lite - $599

Intel Pentium D Processor 2.0 GHz
512MB SO-DIMM RAM (upgrade to 1GB of RAM for $150)
120GB Serail ATA Harddrive Optional 256GB solid-state drive (add $300)
15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with support for millions of colors
CD-ROM Optical Drive (add DVD capability for $120)
Estimated 1.5 hrs of battery life
Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard (add iLife 09' for $200)

msteinhilber

jryantech wrote: »

Sweet! I can see it now..

MacBook Lite - $599

Intel Pentium D Processor 2.0 GHz
512MB SO-DIMM RAM (upgrade to 1GB of RAM for $150)
120GB Serail ATA Harddrive Optional 256GB solid-state drive (add $300)
15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with support for millions of colors
CD-ROM Optical Drive (add DVD capability for $120)
Estimated 1.5 hrs of battery life
Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard (add iLife 09' for $200)

That's about it, except for possibly optional wired ethernet (add $100), wireless (add $150), ability to charge your battery (add $200), etc.

wastedtime

As far as vista goes, some businesses just cannot do it. You have to look at a lot of compatibility factors, maybe retraining users, baseline distribution across networks, not to mention the greatly added hardware requirements.

A company may have proprietary programs or in some cases many. A large work force who are not all that computer savvy/buy new computers every couple of years so they use the latest OS may not be experienced with it and need training. Securing a new OS for a baseline image especially one that changed so much requires time to meet the security requirements that some businesses have. For example services running in the background, new programs/utilities added to the OS. Then you got to remember some companies buy mid level computers and upgrade over a 3-4 year period. When you have antivirus, firewall, system management, user management programs running in the background with your couple of programs currently running like a web browser and office productivity program(s) you just will not have the ability to upgrade.

So Money, Management, Security, Training are factors why the Vista upgrade is hard for some to swallow.

Tyrant1919

One reason why a lot of database and programs are going towards web delivery. Pretty soon the OS won't matter, only the browser. I myself am 100% for going all web.

WillTech105

I personally have been using Vista for about 5 months now and I have no issues with it. The only downside is you better have a nice machine to run it at best preformance but side from that the only flaw was learning where MS put the stuff you were originally used to (network center is too fancy for my tests) but aside from that its OK.

wastedtime

Tyrant1919 wrote: »

One reason why a lot of database and programs are going towards web delivery. Pretty soon the OS won't matter, only the browser. I myself am 100% for going all web.

A Web based database will solve some stuff but for example in my situation it also creates more problems.