Apple's products are universally acclaimed for their wonderfulness and gorgeousness -- except in the real world, where people use computers for actual work and not just for messing around.
Just ask The Onion, and when you're done, have a butchers' at the latest market-share statistics. Apple's Leopard operating system failed to make significant in-roads against even an ailing Windows Vista, and we're not so sure Snow Leopard, despite its claimed improvements, has what it takes to topple Windows 7.
Save your eggs and flour until the end, children. Over the next few pages, we're going to explain our rationale, and by the end of it, we're willing to bet you'll agree with us. Or flame us in the comments below.
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Anonymous 29 September, 2010 17:33
I used to come to CNET before buying products and used to think this is the best place for good reviews of products, but recently all I read is about how good Microsoft is good articles. This is the best, Windows 7 better than Snow... lmao!!! Is this Guy Kidding me, my partner's laptop has Windows 7 which has crashed and had drivers problems and what not and is at a speed of a snail after having top off the line config. On the Other side my 3 year old mac, is a smooth as ever! No problems what so ever till now. Well see ya CNET you can make your money by your baised articles, but you can't fool this consumer, I work both on Windows 7 and Snow, and Snow is amazing!!! I know I am not coming here again to get your baised opinion/review.
Anonymous 12 October, 2010 11:33
I use both. I installed snow leopard onto my AMD machine with relative ease. Both operating systems excel in different areas, getting frustrated and aggressive on a website because you're a fanboi of a paticular operating system is quite frankly; sad.
Anonymous 14 November, 2010 03:10
aren't the 3 most importent things performance, security and interface?
Performance: Snow Leopard wins (except for games, but hey, isn't that why there are game consoles?)
Security: Mac... always Mac
Interface: Subjective, maybe Windows 7 is better... maybe not...
Anonymous 20 November, 2010 12:41
Having both systems on two machines, and being regular Win7 user from first beta - I must admit I had 0 problems so far. If you need to change hardware - all drivers are loaded silently via Windows Update. All programs and games work, never had a BSOD.
Snow Leopard is nice. Somehow I get the feeling they are following the way: "Less is more"
Windows user will like simplicity of SL, but when in need for that "extra setting" or "small, extra tool" will definitively come back to Win.
One funny thing about tweaking the looks of Snow Leopard. I tried to tweak the skin, and realised there is no "official" way to do this. Black would be nice, so I google it and found some semi-solutions (font in finder cant be changed). This led me to several YouTube links showing how to tweak. It was funny to see that all the posts were done by 12-14 year old kids.
One additional thought: Having wide monitor (fullHD) I sometimes play windowed cartoons for my daughter on the left side of it, while keeping my work on the right side. One thing that bothers me in SL is that program menu bar is always fixed on the top (left) part of the screen, so any changes I need to do to some document force me to interfere with QuickTime window. I like it better in Windows, where program menu bar is being hold by and can be scaled to program window.
Cheers!
anonymous 16 January, 2011 23:46
This article is astoundingly poorly researched. The tone is coloquial, and sarcastic, and claims are rarely backed up with facts. It significantly shakes my faith in using any of your site's reviews when making purchasing decisions. (I'm not going to go into your technical details about the operating systems--I personally disagree about the drivers, file system compatibility, and a great deal of the software compatibility issues, but I'm not really a professional.)
What really gets me is how you seem to think the businesses mac dominants, such as music, and film aren't real, and those making careers out of them aren't doing real work. Those are bilion dolar industries, and I think a whole lot of people have a right to be angry about much more than simply having their preferred OS insulted.
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