Fair enough, but if that’s putting you off what is your alternative? Windows? Linux? Compatibility problems much worse on those than OSX.
Well, I use all sorts of weird and wonderful software of varying vintages, and only one stats package has refused on vista x64, but it works fine in W7 x86. None of them needed updates from their manufacturers before they worked on the newer OS. Apart from the obvious huge leaps from win 9x to NT-based OS, or between 32 and 64 bit computing, I can’t really think of much that hasn’t just natively worked in Windows.
As people have said in the past, it’s no wonder Apple make a reasonably stable OS, they don’t have to try to support the plethora of hardware permutations that MS has to. It just haddn’t occurred to me that they were too lazy to even make older software work on it.
I guess it’s these sad fanboi comments that put me off a Mac the most. It’s just an IBM-compatible PC with a quirky OS – get over it!
Anyway, I’ll still look at an MBA in the shops this weekend with serious intent towards buying. From internet research, it seems it’s actually the best specced ultra-light laptop at that price – this is the only reason I’m interested.