Why would someone not upgrade?

[jdog]

Just wondering what reasons would keep someone from using OSX?

[tie]

It's slow. Very slow.

[TommyWillB]

Besides not having all of the applications I want (or even the few I need), the main stumbling block is the lack of support fo my existing hardware.

For me this is mostly my Epson 900N network printer.

WE NEED DRIVERS! ... not in July... and certainly not in September. NOW!

[RacerX]

I would say that the same thing that stopped most current Mac OS X users from using Mac OS X Server when it came out two years ago (where was this site two years ago?), only to a much lesser degree. I can't believe that the "Server" in the name was the reason so many didn't get it when it came out, and the price tag ($499.00) wasn't that bad compared to what Steve was charging for OPENSTEP User and Developer Tools ($799.00 and $4999.00 respectively). It is basicly the applications barrier. The new OS wouldn't use any of the users current investment in software and a suitable version or replace of that software doesn't exist. As Apple came close to releasing Rhapsody they realized that there wasn't enough native apps, and the Blue Box environment was not going to cut it with the old ones. Mac OS X Server is more Mac-like in form and function than Mac OS X is, but thanks to Carbon, some of the old important apps are starting to appear on Mac OS X.

Honestly, and I truly hate to say this, when Microsoft releases Office 2001 for Mac OS X, there is going to be a flood of new users. It is just the way things are.

[AdmiralAK]

One of my friends got office 2001, and he had office 98.
I seriously CANNOT see why anyone would shell out so much money for an office suite when it is not really needed! Most (if not all) can be accomplished by the 98 version that he already had.

Human nature never ceases to amaze me.

Admiral

[PoweMACuser]

Originally posted by jdog
Just wondering what reasons would keep someone from using OSX?

Why upgrade to OS X? I just installed it for have an overview of X. now I have deleted OS X.

If the software want to used the full new tech in X, it must be rewritten in Ojective-C. Ojective-C is not portable to other platform. Although Apple said that it will save 90% work, big developer won't just develope its software for X. they also develope theirs for other platform. Also, if I am right, the main software developer will always use carbon to develope their software.

all carbonized software also can run under 9.x. I don't think adobe, microsoft, corel, and ... will used cocoa tech to develope their software although they all stated that they will develope the software for X.

[AdmiralAK]

I think that once faster machines, and a faster OS X ship, people will use cocoa more than carbon because they can simply get more juice out of it. I think big companies like Adobe will be going to cocoa soon due to the fact that anyone who uses their programs does have newer machine (if they want to upgrade) and thus there will be no prob. ANd most people will already have OS X by the time adobe rolls out with Photoshop 7 or any pther product they cocoaize.

Personally I stil have OS X on mine even though I dont use it that often. I use it to code for my assignments and play around with programming more than anyting.



Admiral

[Myke]

Why would anyone not move over to OSX?

1) Not enough native apps
2) Can't make it connect to the Internet (Oh yes, I have tried just about everything!)
3) I still love the Apple Menu and the dock isn't a substitute (I've already had a long disco about this on the site - I'm not convinced by the 'you don't need it' argument - actually, I do).
4) It won't access any of my peripherals, printer, CD-RW, scanner or external hard disk.

Isn't that enough reasons?

It's very depressing, I had such high hopes and now I might be forced to buy a PC, when support for OS 9 finally dies.

Are there more who think like me out there?

I'm running a beige G3 with 196 M of memory and a processor upgraded to 450 Mhz