Reply to: OSX 10 - who dares?

[woohoo]

What did you come from? I think OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) was a £20 upgrade

I wasn't charged for the upgrade. But I could not continue with the installation without a valid apple id and cc details. I tried a few things off the internet but nope had to enter a valid credit card.

[SimonMac]

I found it a bit of pain to upgrade my 2009 mbp - i could not install it without putting in my credit card details.

What did you come from? I think OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) was a £20 upgrade

[woohoo]

Not sure what all these M$ people are complaining about, OSX 10 just works each and every time, same as every OS update for Mac

I found it a bit of pain to upgrade my 2009 mbp - i could not install it without putting in my credit card details.

[SimonMac]

I got 10.11 on my MacBook - El Capitan!!

Looks just the same to me....

I am part of the Beta programme, but seem to just keep getting updates for 10.10 (10.10.5 IIRC being the latest), did you have to Opt in again for 10.11?

[DaveB]

What's a decent visio replacement?

Lucid Chart is worth a look. Free version limits the number of objects you can use but is enough to decide if it's what you need.

Monthly or annual subscription model. Works out at around £4 a month. Plenty of storage in the cloud.

Saying that, I dont do hugely copmplex diagrams, just soem basic flow charts and architecture diagrams but it works nicely for me.

Paid for itself in the first document I produced with it.

[NibblyPig]

I don't meet the minimum requirements of being a w****r

I do try though

[chef]

I got 10.11 on my MacBook - El Capitan!!

Looks just the same to me....

this.

Also have 'ios 9 beta 2' on main phone and house ipad and no issues there.

[eek]

Hate to say it, but not ever having had to do diagrams and being a Machead, I tried Omnigraffle and found it useless whereas the same with Visio I was banging out pointless network/DR/Environment designs for management in no time.

One up for MS...

+1. Omnigraffle compares fine against Visio 2007 against Visio 2013 it has an awful lot to improve... I did fear that it would be the recommendation

[stek]

OmniGraffle (thanks to Cojak for that tip)

Hate to say it, but not ever having had to do diagrams and being a Machead, I tried Omnigraffle and found it useless whereas the same with Visio I was banging out pointless network/DR/Environment designs for management in no time.

One up for MS...

[SimonMac]

Fusion Pro can do a basic vsphere...

Oooooooh nice to know

[SimonMac]

What's a decent visio replacement?

OmniGraffle (thanks to Cojak for that tip)

[stek]

The point of Bootcamp is to allow the companies that are too lazy to make a OSX version of their software

If you want Windows, but a wintel machine, if you buy a Mac, use it as a Mac! I use a Mac, and the only piece of software I have not found a way to get working on Mac, or a suitable alternative is vCentre, and thats because they are moving to a web based application (although ClientCo refused to use it)

Fusion Pro can do a basic vsphere...

[d000hg]

The point of Bootcamp is to allow the companies that are too lazy to make a OSX version of their software

No, that's Parallels et al. BootCamp is for more heavy-duty use.

Although these days less and less requires it, virtualisation tech is incredible.

[eek]

The point of Bootcamp is to allow the companies that are too lazy to make a OSX version of their software

If you want Windows, but a wintel machine, if you buy a Mac, use it as a Mac! I use a Mac, and the only piece of software I have not found a way to get working on Mac, or a suitable alternative is vCentre, and thats because they are moving to a web based application (although ClientCo refused to use it)

What's a decent visio replacement?

[MicrosoftBob]

Well if they hadn't bothered to check the thing they were buying would actually do what they wanted it to do it's pretty much their own fault. Like buying a cheap Windows laptop and being dissapointed it won't let you run multiple VM's on it.

They could always buy a windows machine run hyper V and run whatever operating systems they want on top even OS X, rather than run the Windows version Apple will allow them to