to all complaining about paying for upgrades too often

[metfoo]

i have come up with a solution for all of you complaining about paying 130.00 every 6-8 months for an OS upgrade. simply join the adc mailing for 199, or if you are a student, join adc student for 99.00

the adc mailing is included in the 99.00 college student membership. each month you get a monthly cd mailing, and you also get os updates. I have almost every realease of X to date in an upgrade cd, or a full version bootable cd. not bad for slightly more than the normal price you would pay. if 2 130.00 upgrades come out within 1 year, you get both, and for much less than paying the retail price.

apple has kindly made these programs available for a while. if you dont like the reatil price path, join this. I am sick of reading people complaining about the price tag of jaguar. people are now complaining about the possibility of a serial number for jaguar. It was bound to happen eventually. apple has the right to protect their OS from piracy.

Some of you people are making me sick.

 

[r4bid]

Just make sure that you only sign up for adc if you meet the requirements, if enough people rip them off they will just get rid of the program.

 

[lionsweb]

Hmm. There's no 199 option in my ADC... there's a 99 dollar gift certificate for students, and a 500 dollar premier ADC membership... nothing in between....
where are you seeing this option at?

 

[nichrome]

Ugh. He said "join the ADC mailing". Which is absolutely correct. You first have to be a member (any kind will do, even free online member). Then, go to the ADC shop and subscribe to the mailing.

Something previous posters have failed to mention: It's a yearly fee. If one for-pay update comes out per year (as it has been for years until now), you end up paying a bit more for the mailing subscription per year than the OS boxes alone.

 

[gibbs]

While im sure we all appreciate inventive ideas on how to pay less for OS X-

you want to know whats even more annoying than people complaining about OS X prices?

People complaining about people complaining about OS X prices.

 

[vanguard]

So what am I to think about people complaining about people complaining about people complaining about OSX prices?