Vista And Mac OS X Leopard Upgrade Chart

Right; so why doesn't the Mac part of the chart have at least two lines?

$129 for Tiger (103 on Amazon). $79 for upgrade.

I know, I wasn't trying to make a one to one comparison; I just thought it would be interesting to see how many iPods one would have to buy to keep up with Apple's frequent release schedule. Of course, I realize most people wouldn't do this, and a few of the ones that would would do stuff like sell the old ones on eBay or something.

My honest reaction to this chart is that it's ridiculous. Just to start off with, it's wrong in a whole bunch of places. There are a whole bunch of lines going from XP to things like "Vista Home Basic to Vista Home Premium Upgrade", which is ridiculous, because that's Vista to Vista, not XP to Vista, as the dotted line would suggest.

They basically are exaggerating things to make their point. There are only four versions of Vista listed on this chart (Basic, Premium, Business, and Ultimate). All other entries are deliberately misleading. Listing upgrades as separate is ridiculous, especially when the chart starts by saying that the original OS is XP, so there should only be four lines: upgrades to the four different versions.

Speaking of upgrade pricing, does Apple not offer discounted pricing to current owners of OS X? If not, that really sucks, especially considering how frequently they release. If they do, then this chart is wrong again, since (to be consistent with the windows one) they should list that as at least two lines (upgrade and full price).

Anyway, I guess it all leads to the eventual point that the author of this joke was intending to make: that there are too many different "editions" of Vista, even though it's not as many as he tries to imply. I would agree that the different editions are somewhat silly, but that doesn't bother me at all. They can try to run their business that way if they want. I don't personally think it's a good idea, and this is only one facet of Vista that I believe is going to end up pushing general market share away from Microsoft.

There are plenty of things to be bothered about regarding Vista, though, so I'd rather bag on that stuff than this.

stryker:?

Jared: You know that doesn't make sense, I guess I could see some point of yours but not really; this is software upgrades not differences in hardware.

mac fan boy ----> huge mac fan boy

They should do the same chart with iPods.