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  • FCX upromised pgrade to be free or not?

    Posted by Morten on August 30, 2011 at 5:16 am

    After all the fuzz with 1.0 one would suppose thay the promised upgrade be free, right?
    I for one thing have not got any usage of the 1.0 purchase, especially since it won’t install on any of our 2 Macpros (2008), so I have only played a little with it on my aging MBP.

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    John Joyce replied 14 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Craig Seeman

    August 30, 2011 at 5:32 am

    One doesn’t know for sure but my hunch is that there will be a bug fix update coming soon and that will probably be free. There may be a more involved upgrade down the line . . . but I personally can’t help but think that one will be free as well. Note that the App Store has no paid updates. it’s either free or a new full price purchase (unless Apple changes this policy) so I can’t imagine Apple would charge $300 for another upgrade any time soon.

  • Leighton Oosthuisen

    August 30, 2011 at 6:12 am

    As ridiculous as this sounds, Apple should have made 1.0 a Beta version, with all the issues I am having.
    And Im trying really hard not to bash it, but have been trying to work in X for a week, and currently average 80-100 crashes a day. Fortunately nothing lost but time.
    This on a MPro, and a 2010 iMac 27″.

  • Craig Seeman

    August 30, 2011 at 6:25 am

    The number of bugs I’m running into don’t seem out of the ordinary for a 1.0 or major upgrade in some products including major OS upgrades. I’m not getting many crashes but those beach balls are painful.

    If you travel down the road about what’s a beta then you get into speculation about “hard” release dates and why they happen. I have my own speculation on that which I’ve posted elsewhere. I do think Apple for various reasons had a “hard” release date they eventually locked themselves into.

    I’ve certainly been productive with it on MacPro 2008 with GPU upgraded to ATI 5770.

  • John Joyce

    August 30, 2011 at 1:05 pm

    The number of bugs I’m running into don’t seem out of the ordinary for a 1.0 or major upgrade in some products including major OS upgrades

    I think I am beginning to understand Apple’s philosophy: BOGU.

    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BOGU

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