Toronto. In late summer 2007, I bought into the Apple iMac mystery with OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Before then, I had moved from the dying Amiga to Windows 95.
I began using Windows with 3.11 for work groups. After the very capable multitasking Amiga, Windows 3.11 and 95 were simply terrible. After Windows 98 came Windows ME. I thought Windows ME would solve my lack of updates to Windows 98, but ME refused to load without forcing me to reformat my drive and re-installing everything on it – files, applications, updates to applications, etc. Literally hours and hours of work because Microsoft Windows ME refused to install correctly over Windows 98 for me.
That and the incessant slowing of each computer I bought and the need for system slowing anti-virus software drove me in disgust to search for a different system.
I moved to Apple, that summer and never looked back. I updated the OS X each time a new release was announced. Finally my iMac, now almost nine years old, began to show signs of its age. Under the current version of OS X called El Capitan, my system is slower to open files and applications but still usable. This past Monday, Apple announced that OS X would be called macOS when its new iteration Sierra is released this fall. Continue reading
