Dale Gillard, of Coffs Harbour Mac Users Group, believes people will upgrade because Jaguar should solve a lot of the problems some Mac users have with printers and scanners, and will have a lot of advantages such as multitasking and increased stability.
-For consumers cost might be an issue but compare it to a Windows user moving to Windows XP, it would cost them double," Gillard told ZDNet Australia. -I definitely think it's good value, the improved performance of it is the key thing. The extra polish to make it work better with networks and operate better in general."
Apple's decision not to sell a less expensive upgrade version lay in the qualitative difference between version 10.1 and 10.2, the company said. Although the versions share the same core technology, Jaguar includes several new features and services, such as search tool Sherlock 3 and Internet address finder Rendezvous, which arguably classify it as an entirely new piece of software.
Scott Lovell, national Apple product manager for IT wholesale Melbourne, told ZDNet Australia that there has been a lot of interest from resellers, especially since supplies of Mac OS 10.13 had begun drying up. -We're converting all our customers over to Jaguar so they're happy to wait at this stage," he said. Lovell believes the sale of Mac OS X version 10.2 will be application driven.
Matthew Healey, of the WA Macintosh Users Group, agreed the new system will be good value for money. "Many of our members don't share that view though," he added. -In particular, are the members that have only recently purchased a copy of OS X. They get hit the hardest with the no-upgrade policy."
Michael Kanellos contributed to this article
I wouldn't buy the next Mac OS for peanuts. Already using MacOSX, I find support to be intolerable.
Is there's one thing Apple should revamp, it's has to be technical support.