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Originally Posted by David Franklin Of course, the issue doesn't arise with Apple, 'cos it's not like you can go and change your motherboard for the latest special from MSI, can you? And how many times has Apple charged just for upgrades to OS X now? Plus OS X (Intel) looks like it's going to be so far in bed with DRM it will need a marriage certificate. So best bet is OS X is going to be even worse than Windows in that respect. |
Regarding the DRM issue, have a look at this
article.
The article is from the bginning of August and there is a link at the bottom of the article pointing to Longhorn/Vista TPM. The link is broken but you can have a look at
this
We are at number four in terms of paying upgrades to the OS, I've only paid for two, 10.1 and 10.3. Nothing forces you to upgrade, Apple still release security updates not only for the current .x version, and I can istall my copy of OS X on as many computers as I like (as long as it is only one at a time as the T&Cs state).