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Will Windows 7 make you switch back?
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i hope it doesn't as I just switched to Mac, so far the experience is more pleasant than any of my Windows experiences. Still, there's always room for any good operating system, we should give Windows 7 a chance and judge it on its full release.
The beta I'm running hasn't given me 1 problem yet (sans IE8, but I thought I'd give it a shot)
Oh God, here we go again.
How about this: run both Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. Use either one whenever you need to, and stop spewing BS about either OS.
Why would I want to do that?
Yeah, where's the fun in that?
Im curious of what a 7-lited disc would run like. V-lite works somewhat, but it just makes more coasters than anything useful. A disc of win7 slimmed down to cd size would be awesome.
On a side note:
Anyone else getting a headache from the mindless windows bashing? It seems like quite a few people hate windows 7 just because it has the word "windows" in the title. Grow up fanboys, you are just making yourselves look stupid.
The fun is having a mobile Mac and a quad core desktop for gaming and heavy crunching.Yeah, where's the fun in that?
Also, hackintosh one day?
Agree 100 %.
I 've been using mac for the last few months ( and i under stand why apple needs the boot camp so badly) ..... I often wonder why mac boys have to always shout and tell that it is the best.
I think mac and windows are at the same level now.
If mac does not bring things substantailly new , windows 7 might get the upper hand.
I don't mind XP so much and that's what I saw on the Lenovo and Acer netbooks. Sure, Microsoft XP ripped off the OS X look and it's just a knockoff imitation of OS X, but for my purposes of just internet online classes and Microsoft Word, it's plenty of firepower for that. I am not going to try and run Photoshop or games on it.
Steve Jobs hinted at the netbook to Macworld magazine, but only in watching the market "very carefully".
These recessionary times will call for cheaper computers for some users without the full funds for a Macbook Pro, or even a Macbook unibody. A $499 Mac netbook, with a netbook's limited features, would be far sexier than a $349 PC netbook with Windows XP. I would pay the extra money for that.
The kernel and driver model might be the same, but there's quite a bit different about it
And all the fanboy talk in this thread is very
I tried Window 7.....I like OS X much better. OS X helps me get stuff done, instead of getting in my way.
All Snow Leopard is is Leopard with a giant point release attached to it.
See what I did there?
No, it's not. It's the next evolutionary release of the Windows operating system. It's very similar to Windows 98, in that it builds upon its predecessor.
Clearly you don't know what you're talking about, otherwise you'd know that service packs are tied to the operating system they service. They are never released as standalone products.
Its obvious that he was being metaphorical.
On another note why is a Windows fanboy on a Mac forum?
Don
I actually don't consider myself a Windows fanboy. I use both Mac OS X and Windows on a daily basis. If FUD was being spread about Mac OS X, I'd be correcting those who spread it, as well.
can we add an option for never in a million years i'll switch back Besides the fact that i love final cut and that alone will keep for years to stay
Haha.
XP sp2 was a huge freaking upgrade. It was just as serious an update as a 10.x+1 update.
Yeah, i love the fact that i cant adjust a window size by any edge. Those 2px borders suck, they get in my way all the time.
-_-
*facepalm*
You really are delusional arent you?
Imo, Snow Leopard and Windows 7 is going to be the best dual-boot setup ever. Two great operating systems, both giving me everything i could ever want. If only apple would back off a bit and allow virtualization, then i could access osx without rebooting from windows. But alas, its more important to be locked out of my computer than to have a convenient feature.
TBH, Windows 7 looks great...BUT...looks don't get the job done. I'm tired of the Registry, that hasn't gone away. Installing programs still share bits and pieces of the program with other programs, then when you try to "uninstall" a program Windows threatens that other programs will be affected because files where shared on the almighty Registry and could damage other programs if you completely remove this program.
The Mac OS thankfully has no Registry so I'm rid of this nonsense.
Also the Device Manager which you nearly need a doctorate degree to master because it's so frustrating and those hair pulling .DLL files. Windows 7 could be a viable OS if MS got rid of the Registry and did something better with the Device Manager and rid the user of having to deal with those .DLL files crap.
So would I switch back to Windows, hell no. Microsoft breaks every promise they make.
A cleaned up Windows 7 still needs Windex.
The Mac OS thankfully has no Registry so I'm rid of this nonsense.
Also the Device Manager which you nearly need a doctorate degree to master because it's so frustrating and those hair pulling .DLL files. Windows 7 could be a viable OS if MS got rid of the Registry and did something better with the Device Manager and rid the user of having to deal with those .DLL files crap.
So would I switch back to Windows, hell no. Microsoft breaks every promise they make.
A cleaned up Windows 7 still needs Windex.
I don't like the Registry much either, but it's also not as bad as you make it out to be. During the 9x era, "DLL hell" was very common and was the main cause of BSOD. But since XP and the widespread adoption of Windows NT, the Registry is far less vulnerable than it once was. There's far less corruption.
Also, Microsoft has long been pushing the .NET framework, which doesn't touch the Registry at all. And many developers are flocking to it. I think, in time, the Registry will disappear, but it has to be gradual. You can't just yank it out of Windows 7 suddenly and expect everything to work as it should.
Apple is doing the same thing with their PowerPC support. Slowly but surely, they are gradually moving away from the PowerPC, and it's now possible that Snow Leopard will be exclusive to the Intel platform.
i am still buying a macbook, i just am probably going to wait now for it and put in a 500gb harddrive and partition it...
i can hold out for apples summer special!
i can hold out for apples summer special!
True, but I think you need to go back a bit further. Apple took the risk (for the better of their customers) that Microsoft refuses to do out of fear of losing customers. Going from PowerPC to Intel is not the big leap Apple took, it was when they went from OS 9 to OS X. Everything had to be completely re-written epecially software from the developers and the Mac customers (who remained faithful) had to get used to a new OS that didn't work with their current Mac software.
Microsoft has a big business in Windows (although mostly in XP) and is afraid of re-writing Windows to make it more revolutionary than evolutionary because they don't want to lose customers.
It's terrible of Microsoft to make customers feel that they got something really new and different in Windows 7 because it's really STILL Windows but with more makeup on.
Don't get me wrong, I'm typing this right now using W7 and the UI is very nice and the thumbnails are cool and very useful but under the hood is more important to me rather than prettiness.
Well, you're right about Windows 7. Because Windows Vista, the previous release, is the one that was revolutionary. The reason it had a lot of compatibility issues when it was first released is very similar to the issues that originally faced Mac OS X: because it was brand new, with a radically redesigned kernel. The fact that Microsoft also built in legacy compatibility modes only made Vista that much more difficult to work with initially.
The other problem is that Windows has infinitely more users, including enterprise users, who use very old software that simply has to rely on Windows' legacy support. If these enterprises would ever get around to deploying more modern solutions, then perhaps Microsoft really could truly rebuild Windows, even more so than they did with Vista. They could completely start over, like Apple did.
Anyway, I'm getting off-topic.