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- benny87, on 10/27/2007, -55/+176Tiger beats Vista in the "Wow!" department.
- martyFREEDOM, on 10/21/2007, -15/+78Vista works fine, OS X works fine, various GNU distros work fine. Who the ***** cares.
- charlesray, on 10/19/2007, -19/+801. You don't need any sort of absurd system to run Vista, just one that doesn't suck. OS X has pretty high requirements itself, you just don't realize it because any system Apple sells can run it well. That's part of why they control the hardware. From what I hear, OS X sucks up quite a bit of RAM.
2. Why is he getting dugg down, and why is he getting bashed? There are grammar errors and he did unnecessarily capitalize Mac, however, his comment is a useful point of view from someone who uses both systems and knows their strengths and weaknesses. - inactive, on 10/21/2007, -13/+74Although ZDNet has always been a haven for Microsoft apologists and fanboys, I actually like this article because it praises features that I didn't know about, features that haven't been heavily promoted by Apple already.
- axisofphilippe, on 10/27/2007, -84/+132I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Leopard beats Vista in the "everything" department.
- TheZorch, on 10/21/2007, -22/+64The biggest thing is Mac OS X Leopard is now Unix Certified, which means there is no longer an excuse why companies don't switch to Mac OS X instead of Windows.
- anorexicpillow, on 10/18/2007, -13/+47lol it hasn't been 5 years since the last os release for the mac though. It's not a huge wow because they don't have to improve on 5 year old tech, its just minor usability and behind the scenes improvements.
- stmiller, on 10/20/2007, -4/+37Except that moving to OS X requires purchasing new computers for the entire company. Though companies could push in upgrades over time.
- sleeknerve, on 10/19/2007, -10/+41I beat your mom in the "WoW" department
- lharrod, on 10/19/2007, -17/+46I work at a software company that creates security apps for Windows. Everyday, I use several PC's with every Win OS imaginable, and I can honestly say that Vista is cool in some areas, but crap in so many others. The OS I like to use best at work is XP Pro (though I must use all Win OS's, I have no choice). XP Pro gives me the least headaches. At home? Mac OSX.
- Braingoo, on 10/22/2007, -133/+161OK, what is with the Vista Bashing, yes you need a good computer to run it. But its defiantly not crap. I use Macs all the time and I have yet to get one to work the way I want it to. It in turn wants me to work the way it wants me too. I hate that. My windows machine is running Vista, plays all games I want to play and runs all applications that I need it to run. So digg me down I know its coming but I'm sick of people telling me my OS is crap. It is not it is actually pretty awesome. At least my computer is upgradeable and has modular components MACs are very well designed form wise but definatly not function wise. Don't get me wrong I have used MACs and they have their place, just not on my desk /end rant
- daldredge, on 10/19/2007, -16/+42What is so bad about it?
- thunderer, on 10/20/2007, -3/+28Can we have a "Bury as flame-fest" option?
- KSUdesigner, on 10/19/2007, -10/+35Look, it's not necessarily that we think your OS is crap, it's that we think ours is better. It's not really that a Mac tries to get you to work the way it wants you to, it's that you're so accustomed to working the way a PC wants you to work. Imagine for a moment that you were never introduced to Windows and had done all or most of your computing on a Mac. Working on a Mac would be second nature and you'd feel that Windows is trying to get you to work the way it wants you to. This is the inherent difference between a PC and a Mac. It's simply a matter of figuring out which way you prefer to work. To each his own I say, does it really matter what operating system a person uses if he is accomplishing the tasks he needs to do? You are proficient at using a PC, I am proficient at using a Mac. You may say I pay too much for my computers, but I'm OK with that (but still praying that Apple gains enough market share for significant price drops). You might be able to play games on your PC, but I prefer consoles. Enough with the fanboy wars, as long as you are happy using what you are using, it shouldn't make a difference what anybody else uses.
- Abdo375, on 10/20/2007, -3/+26The guy is using exact sentences from apples website
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html - Dustmuffins, on 10/19/2007, -3/+24'Cept gaming and hardware =(
- mobilehavoc, on 10/22/2007, -9/+30I guess it's that time of month again on Digg
- Ranneko, on 10/22/2007, -2/+23One of the 'new' features he points out, the ability to read and write to FAT32 partitions is not a new feature. Tiger does this, heck, Panther did that.
If they are saying that they have NTFS compatibility, that would be great. - ScrabbyDoo, on 10/20/2007, -0/+19"Copy Files Between Mac OS X and Windows
Copy, open, modify, or delete files in Mac OS X that you saved to your Windows partition. Leopard understands the Windows FAT32 disk format."
eh? what? I'm already doing this with Tiger. - lordspidey, on 10/22/2007, -22/+41Since when does Vista even have Wow.
- Scruffydan, on 10/18/2007, -0/+18thats nothing to brag about she plays a Paladin
- lharrod, on 10/19/2007, -2/+19Well, those of us with jobs and paychecks will be paying for the OS of our choice. It's absurd to automatically dismiss something because it's not free.
- mlostracco, on 10/19/2007, -4/+20And iPod, not iPOD.
- cgreentx, on 10/22/2007, -2/+17Most apple features are copies of other platforms. Steve Jobs himself admits that they are very good at taking an idea and improving on it. I don't think anyone with knowledge denies this except the hardcore apple fanboys.
- milkmage, on 10/21/2007, -1/+16MAC = media access control (as in all network adapters have a MAC address)
- Lochie, on 10/20/2007, -4/+18Could you please put me through to Tracey Smith? I think she works in the Wow! Department.
- MioTheGreat, on 10/18/2007, -3/+17Windows Mail _cannot_ BSOD your machine. It's simply impossible for a usermode app to take down the PC like that.
Only kernel level code can do that, or hardware problems. If Windows BSODs on you, odds are you've got bad hardware, or a driver ***** things up (Which is much more likely than anything else.). Like, maybe 5-10% of BSODs are actual Windows issues. - Azio, on 10/20/2007, -2/+14Yeah and I'm sure Leopard runs like butter on that G3 PowerMac in your attic
- cave, on 10/22/2007, -1/+12In thier marketing materials.
- Speed, on 10/19/2007, -8/+19Strange, my 2.6 GHz Celeron with 1GB RAM runs Vista with all the eye candy jsut fine. Not even close to a CRAY supercomputer. Hell, that's not even a high-end computer. That's midrange to low range now.
Come to think of it, my 2.4 Ghz desktop with 512MB RAM runs Vista just fine too... - totorototoro, on 10/18/2007, -1/+12Given this guys history of slagging Apple for clicks, I'm guessing this is his setup for a whole series of "wow, the actual Leopard is really disappointing!" posts that will last him thru the new year :p
- wafflez, on 10/22/2007, -9/+20;_; why do you guys hate vista so much? I've been running it on 2 different computers over the past 11 months and I haven't seen or experienced anything wrong with it....well if you're complaining about price, go right ahead...I can't complain about that only because I torrented it.
- theaceoffire, on 10/22/2007, -4/+14Take some time to try out an alternative. Then you will see why.
- rockets, on 10/18/2007, -19/+29File icons are preview of contents???? LOL That's has been in KDE for quite a while now.
- rompom7, on 11/02/2007, -1/+11Perhaps it is just a place not riddled with mac enthusiasts?
- Scruffydan, on 10/18/2007, -13/+23Mac software tends to have less options, making it simple and easy to use but the downside is you can't tweak it to work exactly the way you want it to work.
I know this is huge generalization and there are plenty of exceptions. no need to point that out - Speed, on 10/19/2007, -2/+12My moms $700 laptop runs Vista just fine. So does my old computer (made from spare parts, would get me about $500 at most).
- DaffyDuck, on 10/18/2007, -4/+14Windows Service packs are bug fixes and security patches. Only occasionally do they contain new features and they are generally inconsequential. Leopard is not a service pack. In fact, it makes no attempt to fix particular bugs in Tiger because it's a new OS with it's own new bugs to be patched with later point releases.
- RetlawST, on 10/18/2007, -6/+16What was the last OS upgrade MS offered that actually sped up computer performance?
- quikboy, on 10/22/2007, -10/+20Yeah, but when Vista puts something new, that's already been in OS X for awhile, people called MS a copycat.
So the same rules don't apply when OS X pulls some other features already on KDE, and makes them they're own as well?
Yep, that's real fair. - Roger, on 10/20/2007, -12/+21Vista is pretty ugly IMHO. OSX has always been more attractive.
- greevar, on 10/18/2007, -11/+20Right, they're going to move from a easily upgradeable and scalable computer platform with a proprietary operating system to a proprietary hard-to-upgrade hardware platform and proprietary operating system. Sounds like a good investment to me.
- cgreentx, on 10/19/2007, -7/+16"[Note that this is one of those re-tweaked features - I believe that this is already in OS X Address Book but uses MapQuest instead of Google Maps. But yeah, it’s cool. Why can’t Outlook have this?]"
Hrmm.. Last I checked my Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 both had this feature. If you're going to write an article like this you should at least use the products you compare to. Sure they use MSN maps, not google. That's not what he's saying though. - dagamer34, on 10/22/2007, -7/+16MS takes the idea and copies is horribly: Flip3D
Apple takes an idea and makes it visually pleasing: Spaces
It's not the idea that people care about. It's the implementation. - natenovs, on 10/19/2007, -6/+15do you know the definition of latter and former?
plus, i own vista, and i enjoy it. now you know me, therefor, you're a liar. - ismith, on 10/20/2007, -0/+9It lets you sync files to your DeLorean.
- captainchris, on 10/18/2007, -1/+10yeah it's not like it computes or anything
- bitweever, on 10/18/2007, -0/+8It sure SOUNDS like he's been looking at Microsoft OSes:
"Sure, I’m reading a web page here and I’ve been exposed to enough marketing material to know that there can be a huge gulf between what something says it will do in theory and how it behaves in practice and that there’s a good chance that while these features will exist in Leopard that not all will operate or behave the way I expect them to." - nitewing98, on 10/18/2007, -7/+15You start by saying "I use Macs all the time," then end with "I have used Macs." Which is it?
This is standard for Mac-bashers, to claim that they use one, have owned one, etc. and then proceed to bash it. They do this to avoid Mac users from skewering them for bashing something they've never tried.
Tell me, when was the last time you actually used a Mac? - compgeek, on 10/20/2007, -2/+10those features did make me go wow more than once but so did some of the features in vista (the 3d task switcher and some of the new screensavers such as bubbles) both OS's have their WOW points
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