Sigma PhotoPro 6.7

Scottelly wrote:

absquatulate wrote:

Scottelly wrote:

richard stone wrote:

I never up grade immediately: It's just a huge mistake. I'm still on high sierra (I like the picture) and have no plans to change anytime soon. I'm not even sure my old Macbook air (2012) would support it. Why wrestle with all of that?

And yes, they really want you to buy a new computer. Is that some sort of surprise?

Not really, but I know one photographer who refuses to buy a new computer, because of incompatibility issues the new computers will have with the software suites and hardware he owns, so maybe Apple DOESN'T want us to buy new computers. After-all, why would they make an operating system that is incompatible with SO many devices and SO much software out there, if they want people to buy their new computers, which come with that software (and are presumably not compatible with older versions of their OS).

BTW, remember when Windows computers were available in your choice of Windows 7 or Windows Vista, because there were so many problems with Windows Vista? Unfortunately, we Mac users don't have such a choice. It's either get a new computer and have incompatibility problems, or just stick with what we've got (or buy used). I suspect that the used Mac market will be very good for people selling their old Mac computers over the next few years, keeping the prices of used Macs high.

I liked my old MacBook but as soon as Apple decided not to support my hardware with their OS after 5 years of ownership I was out, not for me thanks. I now run an older laptop with a dual boot Linux and windows 7 setup, windows 10 is not coming near any of my hardware either.

Maybe we're just a bunch of dinosaurs. lol

There are probably kids out there who are like, "Those old guys have no clue. Apple can't make their new computers backward compatible with EVERY old thing. 64 bit software and hardware has been around for a long time now. If companies don't want to make their products compatible, then too bad for them!"

I guess that's the way it was when Apple moved to OSX, right? I mean there was all sorts of hardware and software that wouldn't work with the "new" Intel Macs or OSX, right? Apple REALLY upset a bunch of pros when they went away from their older tower Mac Pro computers to the trash can Mac Pro. It seems that Apple would have learned by now, but it's like they purposely abandon professionals over and over again. It seems so weird to me. Maybe they just see it as a fact of life, as if it's some type of unavoidable situation or something. I do know someone who had an old Dell, which can't be replaced, because all new systems are incompatible with the machine that computer operates. When the hard drive crashed, the computer was rendered useless, and then the perfectly-good plate burner could not work anymore. There was a few thousand dollars down the drain . . . until they were able to find another old hard drive. Luckily they had a bunch of CDs, with Windows XP and the software for the system on them, and the guy was able to get the thing back up and running again. I guess that's the sort of problem people with drum scanners have. New Windows machines aren't backward compatible with everything either.

I only really keep a windows 7 partition for SPP and LR5, and they're both good for me as they are, as well as the Nik collection, which integrates into LR5. I'm not touching windows 10 with all it's spyware, it's hideous. Other than that I do everything else on Linux, so I'm good with what I have. I buy older Lenovo's which run linux really well so I've stepped off the windows/Mac upgrade train for the foreseeable future.