> Bitter experience has taught me never to upgrade the OS (or anything > else) unless absolutely necessary.
I'm of an almost entirely different opinion! I'll upgrade unless I can find a compelling reason not to. I've found the OS improves in almost every way with each new version. Things get fixed, performance often improves, and many things get fixed, streamlined, or are made more secure. This probably explains why I end up buying two or three new macs every couple of years! Generally I'll buy a copy of the new OS when it comes out and install it on a spare mac, then monitor things like this list to see how sensible it is to upgrade. I've always made backups, but thankfully haven't ever had to restore. Funnily enough, the biggest performance hit that I ever experienced was between OS9 and OSX, and that was a result of having to use Quickeys X1 and X2, which were terrible for me at least. I've been using OSX since it was bought out, but couldn't use it for engraving until FinMac 2005 and Quickeys X3. I haven't booted into OS9 since FinMac 2005. In my experience I'm a little more sceptical about upgrading applications rather than the OS. I was getting so fed up of OS9 that I was considering jumping over to Windows, OS9 sucked big time. -- Simon Troup Digital Music Art ------------------------- Finale IRC channel server: irc.chatspike.net port: 6667 channel: #Finale ------------------------- _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
