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I’ve never owned a mac, believe me If I could afford it, i probably would have it. Ok, so u know me as a mac noob and a pc pro right? Good. Now here is my lil assesment.

I follow up on the features of every mac release, and my stand on the os is once apple decides to grow up and play real ball with the big boys, I probably will have to make that switch. Don’t take that statement the wrong way, I just mean that they are exclusive to their own hardware, a luxury microsoft doesn’t have. I don’t believe there is anything superior about the mac hardware, and if i’m wrong pls educate me there.

Microsoft does a good job of trying to manage a very complex problem. Hardware/Device Compatibility, backward compatibility (software). These are not simple feats, and most people here on the mac end don’t seem to appreciate that. Most xp apps will run on vista no problems.

Also, vista is a sweet OS, and I do agree that MS did some peeking over Apples shoulders, but does that make them evil, no, if the mac is doing something superior or different, pls, intruduce it into windows. I feel the same way about apple, if windows did it, its cool, its usable, go for it. Aero is not a straight copy of Tiger, I don’t buy that argument. Tiger is beautiful, I always take a walk into the local apple store in my area and lust at its sexyness. Vista is both sexier now and more usable than xp in some respects, but Tiger give me the impression that the design is more mature. I mean they have been tweaking it for 4 generations now.

Apple has also done some copying on its own. My only gripe with apple is that they seem to think adding lil features, like “spaces’ is a big feature update, microsoft added that years ago and a small power toy util, but on that note, they could’ve done a better job.

On a usability and support end, microsoft has made some strong strides in making the OS more userfriendly. I get users on the phone everyday that purchased a new Vista machine and they are kinda thrown off by the new features, but in the end, vista has made my job easier. The diagnose and repair option in network and sharing alone does a great job of identifying and correcting network issues. Of course, its not perfect, but it is better.

The clown that said Aero is transparent windows, has no idea what he/she is talking about and needs to be silent. Microsoft did an overhaul on the GUI to make it run completely on the 3d hardware, apple did that first, so what, microsoft did it in my humble opinion, better.

Microsoft nor apple has every given me any money so I’m no fan of either, I use windows because I built my pc and have a copy of xp that came with my other machine (shhhhh-didn’t hear it from me : ) If i had a copy of OSX that could run on my existing hardware, it would jump on it. Don’t compare apples to Lettuce, it ain’t the same.

I will bet my car, that the day apple decides to go for it and sell the OS, not the hardware, they will have many many issues to overcome, and I’m sure the annoyed user who just spent 300 bucks for a copy of OSX to run on his PC, will be making the switch back to windows.

After all this I must still say, I like OSX, I like Vista, and honestly I love xp, issues and all, it does the job and is a very productive environment to work in. I bet if Jobs said we’re adding Ctrl X support I’d see some mac idiot posting how great a man he is…lol, spaces, c’mon I wanna see something truely revolutionary, not the natural evolution that they seem to hype all the time.

Both good OS’s for their purpose, OSX is not in the same league as Windows in my opinion though, just because its not playing same kind of ball, osx is highschool football, windows is NFL.

Let the flames begin : )

Like ” Flip 3d”(copy of Expose) comes only if you buy the ‘premium’ which is 50$ more,

And BitLocker (copy of FileVault); only with teh ultimate which is 300$ with XP; 500$ otherwise…

Microsucks is making 500$ outta copying OS X Puma – Leopard.

they are even copying Apple way of naming things (sticking bit locker into 1 word and capitalizing them, i.e MacBook, FileVault, AirPort, et cetera)

this is stupid.

iLove Apple.

Running OSX on my MacBook Pro is very fast, but you never say in what way it is slower… slower doing what? what tasks are you doing? But being so general it means absolutly nothing.

I would like to say is that Vista does have a feeling of OSX maybe not the same look. The thing is if you want a nice looking laptop, desktop and is easy to use and understand once you figure it out get a Mac.

The thing is it’s like buying a car you have to test drive the real thing instead of forming an opinion based off of someone elses opinion since Vista isn’t out for pubic release and Leopard isn’t out yet so no one can really make a good comparison of either. But from the Beta of Vista and OSX…. Vista just feels so OSX like but chunky like most PCs that need to go on a diet because they carry so much extra coding that aren’t used or to keep there code a secret.

Have u seen teh “Zune”..

???

its so damn fucking ugly!! and in brown!!!

they aren’t gonna beat iPod/Apple with that crap./….

SAD THING IS…

IT’S THE ONLY MP3 PLATER UNCOMPATIBLE WITH VISTA…

HOW SAD IS THAT!!?!?!? UR OWN MP3 PLAYER DOESN’T WRK ON UR OS… AND ITS OCMING OUT IN 2 WEEKS!!!