Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th Jun 2009 22:44 UTC
With Snow Leopard finally been given a release date and a price, the comparisons with Windows 7 are starting to pop up all over the place, especially focussing on the price aspect of things. While Apple's move to price Snow Leopard at 29 USD for Leopard owners is a very welcome one, the move doesn't mean that Microsoft is getting a price beating from Apple.
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there will be a $129 version of SL, because there are a lot of people still running Intel equipped Tiger machines.
Also, SL is not as impressive of a jump from Leopard as Vista is to 7 because Leopard didn't have the troubles Vista did. Thus, SL isn't a "return to glory" the way MS hopes 7 will be.
One thing's for sure; 7 is a nice OS, and definitely faster than Vista. But on identical hardware, it's not faster than Leopard, and surely won't be compared to SL.
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Hm, if I understand the article correctly, we don't really know yet whether there will be a full retail version of Snow Leopard and we don't really know yet how much the upgrade versions of Windows 7 will cost. Does it really make sense then to compare these aspects?
And though as someone owning a ppc Mac I understand the problem of Snow Leopard being only available for intel Macs, can you really compare the situation with Windows? After all, Apple changed the processor architecture of its computers whereas Windows lives in x86 land as it always did.
Finally, the article rightly points out that when judging the improvements the upgrades bring to the table, one also has to factor in the predecessors. However, after stating this, the article totally neglects this aspect.
I think that's especially relevant considering Vista wasn't really met with a lot of praise, to put it mildly, so MS really had to do something.
On the other hands, most Apple users seemed quite contend with what Snow Leopard's predecessor had to offer, so why should Apple change the interface as much as MS did?