Max and Sax

Would you pass up a chance to make a rhyming headline? Neither would I.
Two announcements:
I have maxxed the RAM in my iMac to 6 gigs, using a kit I imported from Other World Computing.
I have also begun work on another Colombo book cover. The man never rests. His latest is about Sax Rohmer, inventor of the evil Dr. Fu Manchu.
The RAM increase was in anticipation of installing the latest, free OS X operating system from Apple, called Mavericks. Although I am pleased to have more RAM, I have decided not to let Mavericks onto my iMac yet. It has a bad reputation for slowing down computers and I don’t think more RAM will be enough to solve the problem. I shall wait for a later version.
Waiting will not be difficult. There is very, very little about Mavericks “improvements” that I find interesting or useful. When Apple Computers became plain old Apple Inc. back in 2007, the company was signalling its change of focus. Computers are old news to today’s iOS-obsessed iPhone company. The lack of attention given to OS X “upgrades” is a reflection of new directions. Too bad for those of us who still like computers, but there’s always Linux.