Apple gets another pound of flesh

All right. I did it. I ordered the 10.5 OS. I was pissed when they released 10.4 soon after we got our Mac....It was one more reason for L to be convinced that Apple was an expert in sucking users dry rather than crafting elegant hardware. (This leads to at least one "fun conversation" w/ my brother, who gets his paycheck from Apple, during any given visit to AZ....but I digress...)

I remember being floored as a colleague of mine in school was so INTO getting his 10.4 in the mail....Like it was opening night for a film he'd been waiting YEARS to see....I can recognize the need for upgrades, and even the need for paying for it...But it still made us miserable that this $1000+ machine we'd bought seemed already....out of date. This must have been what the folks who didn't wait for the Video iPod felt like. Or the folks who saw the iPhone price plummet. Still, Apple stock continues to go through the roof, and my bro (who gets stock options as part of his gig, to the best of my knowledge) continues to wax rhapsodic about Steve & Co.

I guess there's something to it, because I just ponied up over $100 for the new OS (maybe we can work out some of our surfing bugs this way? maybe???).....But I do it with a sense of inevitability and even resentment, rather than excitement.

Here's a link to Apple's "guided tour" of the new OS: http://www.apple.com/macosx/

Me, I hope I don't crash the hard drive upon installing....Computer Love, indeed....