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- MMusick, on 08/24/2009, -5/+227One of these days they're going to run out of cats.
- eadnams, on 08/24/2009, -6/+140OSX: Exchange support in the OS.
Windows 7: Have to buy Office.
huh? - thebuggalo, on 08/24/2009, -3/+98Looking forward to an extra 6GB... oh yeah, and the upgrades.
- scarz99, on 08/24/2009, -3/+94MAC OS X THUNDERCAT
- pseudo.hero, on 08/24/2009, -12/+101OSX + Bootcamped Win7 = Best of both worlds
- biliabong6, on 08/24/2009, -3/+79$29 upgrade is an awesome price.
Microsoft better offer Vista users an equal or cheaper price for the Windows7 upgrade. - Teedsie, on 08/24/2009, -14/+77Mac OS X Snow Leopard: £25. Windows 7 Ultimate: £229.99. I know which one I'm pre-ordering.
- 666dorado, on 08/24/2009, -2/+60Mac OS X LOLCAT
- Antialias, on 08/24/2009, -3/+52I'm the first to admit I've visited the pirate bay, but when a company makes a great decision with pricing like Apple has done here it's foolish not to support their choice. Also, every version(including the single and family versions) can be installed on unlimited machines.
- eadnams, on 08/24/2009, -2/+50Looking forward to OS handled multi-core threading of all apps and full native 64 bit here.
- umdigger, on 08/24/2009, -2/+45Hard to say 'no' when it only costs $30.
- 666dorado, on 08/24/2009, -1/+41inputting chinese characters?
- xsecretfiles, on 08/24/2009, -2/+41Get a $29 Chinese hooker?
- scarz99, on 08/24/2009, -3/+38S I X T Y F O U R B I T !
- BossKey, on 08/24/2009, -1/+33I'm looking forward to OS 10.9 "Keyboard Cat"
- celotil, on 08/24/2009, -1/+33Snow Leopard is not a service pack, just as Windows 7 is not a service pack.
Tiger is to Mac as XP is to PC, then Apple and Microsoft both released new OS's, Leopard and Vista.
From what I can tell, Snow Leopard and Windows 7 are both basically major OS overhauls, but without any real flashy add-ons.
Apple doesn't charge for service packs, which are those several hundred megabyte updates which Software Update alerts me about after bogging down my connection for a day pre-downloading (yes, I know I can switch it off), and are similarly formatted in their numbering system to Microsoft's.
Tiger: 10.4.
SP's: 10.4.x
Leopard: 10.5.
SP's: 10.5.x (where x is at 8 at the moment).
Windows Vista: 6.0
SP's: 6.0.x
Windows 7: 6.1
SP's: 6.1.x
(Nitpick me on the Windows version numbers if you like) - Antialias, on 08/24/2009, -5/+35Ordered the family pack, only $49! I'm excited to see what developers do with the openCL and Grand Central technology.
- hoelzro, on 08/24/2009, -3/+33$29 is pretty cheap, and the new Chinese character input mechanism looks really cool. I know what I'm doing on Friday. =)
- LostSoul83, on 08/24/2009, -6/+36I am by no means an Apple fan, but I'm glad to see they're releasing their OS before Windows 7.
- Ouze, on 08/24/2009, -8/+37It's worth pointing out that Outlook included with Office is a full-featured exchange client, whereas Snow Leopard will have exceedingly limited functionality. No personal folders, no public folders, no offline GAL synching, etc etc. It's not an apples to apples (no pun intended) analogy. It's not like it comes with a free copy of Outlook - more like they included Wordpad, but make you buy Word.
http://www.macwindows.com/column_snowleopard_excha ... - iTomath, on 08/24/2009, -2/+31Make that 7GB* :) They changed it..
- TeKoverride, on 08/24/2009, -1/+26When they name the next OS "Liger" then we know they're running out
- eadnams, on 08/24/2009, -3/+28I use google.
- temsi, on 08/24/2009, -2/+25Mac OS X Snagglepuss even.
- uzair21, on 08/24/2009, -2/+25and lighter OS :)
- Antialias, on 08/24/2009, -2/+24Exchange works without an office suite in Snow Leopard. Also since Office is available for the Mac as well as PC with the addition of iWork or open office as other choices it seems like they are equal on that point?
- scarz99, on 08/24/2009, -1/+23And if she got it last June it's probably eligible for the discounted price of $10.
- phoenix3dd, on 08/25/2009, -1/+23Snow Leoparrd comes with "More Reliable Disk Eject" Holy *****!
- Nothlit, on 08/24/2009, -0/+20Did you miss the part where this article says the exact same thing?
- BossKey, on 08/24/2009, -4/+22Windows Service Packs don't include major architectural rewrites like Snow Leopard does. Was 64-bit support added to Windows in a service pack?
- lovemorgul, on 08/24/2009, -9/+27Leopard is not BIOS dependent.
- eadnams, on 08/24/2009, -0/+18good point, fair enough.
- kitsua, on 08/24/2009, -2/+18I'm mostly looking forward to what app developers finally do with the underlying architecture.
If my software finally becomes fully 64-bit and utilises all CPU cores efficiently I'll be overjoyed.
This might take a while, however. - zodieman, on 08/24/2009, -2/+18Who says they have to "answer? to Windows 7? They, like Microsoft, have their own time table for OS releases. Stop making this out as some kind of war.
BTW, Mac OS X is very happy sitting on top of a BSD UNIX-like system. Very flexible and expandable. Where's the long overdue replacement for the Windows quagmire of DLLs, registry, short system files name, reliance on installers, rigid drive letter handling? I'd have a lot more respect for Windows it Microsoft was to finally ditch that old crusty system and start fresh but we all know that will never happen. - theWrkncacnter, on 08/25/2009, -0/+16I've been waiting for this feature
- s73v3r, on 08/24/2009, -1/+16And I'm enjoying my 4 TB while in a Mac. Your point?
- ajwinder, on 08/24/2009, -2/+17That overpriced hardware line is so overused...
- defectDS, on 08/24/2009, -2/+17NINTENDO SIXTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FOOOOOOOOUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR bit
- Trymmern, on 08/25/2009, -5/+19Mac OSX 10.7 LOLcat
- atgmac, on 08/24/2009, -3/+17Except when your sound fails after you install a minor update.
- inactive, on 08/24/2009, -1/+15Sorry, why is Windows 7 (as awesome as it is) even a talking point here? Surely this article interests OS X users more than it should worry / irritate / anger Windows fans. Aren't these types of discussions a little pointless, not to mention childish?
- Lucas123, on 08/24/2009, -7/+21I like the price. I wish Microsoft would get a clue.
- ChunkerMunker, on 08/24/2009, -3/+17Not better than MAC OS X Hello Kitty
- Philbert, on 08/24/2009, -3/+16Waiting for OS X Schrodinger.
- s73v3r, on 08/24/2009, -5/+18I know, its weird that people are willing to pay so much for Windows 7.
- damian001, on 08/24/2009, -3/+15He bought a good computer, what's your point?
- thebuggalo, on 08/24/2009, -2/+13Even better! Go Apple!
- StuartGibson, on 08/24/2009, -1/+12I'm looking forward to Mac OSX Geoffroy's Cat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffroy%27s_Cat
They have a good number left: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae#Extant_specie ... - coreyb, on 08/25/2009, -1/+12Yeah, I know... I can't get even get support for more than 16 Kb of RAM on my 8088... Stupid progression of technology...
Digg me down for my sarcasm, but you know its true. - photochopped, on 08/24/2009, -2/+13WTF, I thought that box art was a mock up; it's the real thing!
http://images.apple.com/macosx/images/buystrip_sno ... -
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