Posted by alexandra_k on December 31, 2013, at 1:27:37
In reply to Re: i-phone s, posted by alexandra_k on December 31, 2013, at 1:18:15
so... i still have a black macbook. which i loved very very very very very much. until the operating system was no longer supported. i tried to get disks off my mates who brought new macs and they gave me puzzled looks... and then i brought a new mac and learned: no disks, baby. hur.
the not so graceful degradation of my black macbook (which i paid $200 premium for the colour) for ... upset me a lot. all of a sudden this and that software was no longer supported... which upset me a little. then all of a sudden this and that software no longer worked.
i tunes died.
facebook games (bubble witch saga) died - i think something to do with adobe...
stuff died. that was the point. and... i lost faith in computers. so... to be fair... it died in... well... over a long time. the longest time i'd ever had a computer. and... i didn't appreciate that my computer was old and sh*tty until it died. whereas with non-mac computers they always felt like a pile of sh*t for a long time before they died. at half the time... but... still...
i don't know what would have happened if i had have actually forked out for a lion upgrade for it. maybe it would still be good...
anyway... my mother is currently using dial up. on a ... well... a very f*ck*ng old computer of mine. i will give her my old black mac (her first mac). but... i don't have lion disks to upgrade.
ur...
linux?
email.
i think that is about it, really. for her. basic web functionality (obviously limited by dial up). she is using... f*ck... i can't even remember... a computer i used like... 12 or 13 or 15 years ago.
it still works.
wow.
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thread:1057237
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