Loading ...I have been using Mac’s exclusively since the summer of 1984 , and have never been so dissatisfied as during the last few years . I had expensive CAD software which would not work with the newer operating systems . My ‘fix’ was to buy a large capacity external drive , buy the DVD of newer OS versions and make the external drive a fully independent Boot drive , so that I could start up the latest version from that drive , yet retain the functionality of my old OS from the internal drive of the desktop iMac with the big screen for precise CAD work .
After the introduction of iCloud , it became apparent that Apple wanted everyone to use iCloud . Even iDVD disappeared from the latest iterations of the MacOS .
Over the years I had learned to distrust the permanency of any files stored on Apple servers . When .mac morphed to .me ( Mobile Me ) , I lost a lot of photos scanned from 50 and 60 year old family photos . Then MobileMe was abandoned in favor of iCloud , so again I was asked to download photos and videos from their servers before they were trashed ( they did give several months notice , so it was not a panic transition, thankfully ) . The goal of course is to get one to subscribe to pay to extend the bulk of files beyond the ‘free’ capacity .
Now all upgrades are handled by online transfers – I don’t believe one can buy DVD versions any longer . AND ! the newest hardware versions of iMac and MBPro will NOT run earlier Mac OS iterations and peripherals . Nor will the latest Apple peripherals (external DVD drive for latest MBPro for example ) work with earlier hardware . Third party DVD/BluRay USB player/burners such as LaCie will work with both .