OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Feb 2008 15:30 UTC, submitted by CIozzio

"Leopard started out with a generous share of first-version glitches, but almost all of them have now been resolved by the second of two automated updates, which brings Leopard up to version 10.5.2. Finally, Leopard is extravagantly overdressed for the jobs that it's designed to do, and its pervasive eye-candy starts out looking dazzling but soon becomes distracting. Fortunately, from the beginning, the OS started out with options that let you put it on a low-eye-sugar diet, and the latest update has even more."

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RE: A new Party Line emerges

by StephenBeDoper on Sat 23rd Feb 2008 21:20 UTC in reply to "A new Party Line emerges"

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No it is not. It may be a very nice OS. It may be the best thing since sliced bread for everyone with suitable Apple hardware to run it on. But the best OS for most people, it ain't as long as it involves them in a total hardware replacement to get it. Because Apple hardware is not the best hardware ever shipped for the vast majority of consumers. So an OS that forces them to get this hardware to run it simply cannot be the best for them.

What's so onerous about a hardware replacement? Most computer owners already do that every few years anyway, why would it be worse to replace a Windows machine with a Mac, rather than a newer Windows machine?

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