Five reasons why Vista beats Mac OS X

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Preston my boy, you need to get yourself into an English 101 course if you want to be taken seriously.

Kool dude

Hey dude, sup, everything all right, I advise you to get a mental check-up, go to a mental hospital and show this article of yours to one of those docs. You are sure to get admitted. It's ok, not many people have the gift of intellectual ability, U R 1 OF THEM!!!!
U R A FOOL, VISTA BETTER THAN MAC, hahahaha!!! Joke of the bloody milenium!!!

How much memory

How much memory was in the laptop that Microsoft gave you in exchange for providing your props to Vista???

It was widely reported here and elsewhere that Microsoft's PR agency did that.

There can be no other rational explanation for your comments.

I think you are very wrong

First , if someone got rich here this was bill gates , not Steve jobs. Second , i think you never touched a mac and that is why youa re capable of writing such nonsense. It is claer that windows controls the world and anithing better is consider worse.But let me tell that you are very wrong.Mac os x is safer( no virus were found and if there is one it is non-important) , it is more profesional , easyer to work with and so on.I passed to mac os x because i was tired to see on my screen only system errors.Windows is bad designed and will never be as good as mac os x.And finally Vista is the worst operating system since mankind and it just a bad copy of mac os x.
P.S buy a mac and dont make rich bill gates.He is rich enough.Let the good one win not the liar.

Wow, where to begin?

I really used to enjoy reading the author's articles back in the day, but this article looks like it was written by a totally close-minded, WinPC fanboy, who would be likely to say "Mac sucks", then when asked for reasons would say "They just suck and that's it."

Ok, onto the 5 items: (and for full disclosure, I'm a very recent switcher (January '08) to the Mac, and it was Vista that ultimately made me switch.)

1. Vista has more software - Parallels and VMWare Fusion aren't the only 2 games in town. Try Boot Camp (comes free with Leopard), it allows you to run Vista natively on your Intel Mac. Native = no issues with virtual machines or compatibility issues. If Vista crashes on an Intel Mac, it's because Vista is to blame, *NOT* because it's running on Mac hardware (which is now, for all intents and purposes, PC hardware.)

2. Vista is Safer - Are you kidding me? Your "security researcher" said:

"I have found the code quality, at least in terms of security, to be much better overall in Vista than Mac OS X 10.4."

This article is current (April 2008), so why can't the researcher test the CURRENT version of OS X (or why do you have to give an old, outdated quote?)

When it comes to security, UNIX (OS X is based around FreeBSD, one of the most stable and secure *NIX OSes out there) far outshines Vista in terms of security (why do you think there are virtually no viruses on a Mac, while on the other hand, millions of PC users get viruses all the time?

No operating system is unhackable (because we're humans and not perfect, and because passwords are the weakest link in the security chain), but it's a lot more difficult to find an exploit in *BSD than in Windows.

I'll give Microsoft credit that they did secure Vista better than XP, but to say Vista is more secure than OS X is just laughable.

3. It's the money, stupid - I love this reasoning (same one every PC fan always gives) - Yes, you can buy a PC cheaper than a Mac, but the specs are generally worse. If you compare similarly configured Macs and PCs, you'll find that the price difference is minimal and several times the PC ends up costing a lot more (check the quad servers from Dell/HP vs. the Mac Pro sometime.)

You're also strictly looking at price here (didn't anyone ever tell you NOT to buy a car based solely on the price?) You get iLife '08 for free with a new system (iWeb, iPhoto, Garageband, iDVD) - the closest Vista comes to having any of these is its new Photo app (which I'll credit MS, it's actually not too bad for the home user.)

Also, what about taking into account the hassle and aggravation of purchasing and dealing with antivirus/antispyware software? There's another cost. It's pretty much a given that PC users NEED this. Mac users don't, and by extension don't have to deal with extra programs running in the background slowing them down.

Finally, yes, some people care about having quality hardware and/or a nicely designed system. That's all part of the cost. If you don't want to shell out $1200 for an iMac, you can spend $600 for a Mac Mini and still have a very powerful little system.

4. The Mac is closed; Vista is open - I'll give you credit on this to an extent. Yes, if you want to run a better, more secure OS (OS X), you'll need to pony up.

On the other hand, the average PC user doesn't know about (or necessarily even care about) being able to upgrade their hard drives or other internals. (Ask the average user about a hard drive, and they'll say it's the actual tower...I've heard it WAY too often...)

On a different note, the Mac is very open (FreeBSD being fully open source and Apple allowing people to download the Darwin FreeBSD kernel from their website), where Microsoft is fully closed-source and proprietary. So it really depends what issue you want to talk about.

5. Steve Jobs - I haven't been a Mac user long enough to "drink the true believer Kool-Aid", but if company secrets were leaked, I think most companies would try to go after someone who's posting them on a world-wide forum like a news site (I assume you're referring to the "Think Secret" website.)

Personally, I don't buy into any fanboy mentality. I like Apple products and feel that OS X is a superior operating system over anything Microsoft has made to date. And I was a PC user dating back to the late 80's.

You can prefer PC or Mac, whichever one gets the job done for you, but please back up your reasoning with better arguments.

Hard @ Ware?

I don’t see Microsoft supplying Xbox software to Playstation or to a clone Xbox.
Microsoft don’t have desktop hardware.

They initiate schools maintenance licence agreements to make an education system running duel platforms purchase Windows for your Mac computers, even if you do not intend to load Windows on your Mac’s.

It’s supposed to be a better deal for education, but it’s the same monopoly line they always pull. It’s just not fair.

And there’s way more to the dispute when you encounter all the dodgy practises Microsoft entail to force the buck out of education with their select Licensing agreement.

Those in the know, know that a change in the weight of desktop formations will only benefit the current pricing agreements in place, so education can dictate better terms to the corporate world to entice a better deal for the kids.

With an even market there will be a fairer practice.

The PC box comes with Windows, yet we have to pay an upgrade to enterprise licence for it to run a domain CAL.

Education is paramount to society; a student is guided to the industry by the tools they are directed to learn at school.

Where’s the common good when Microsoft makes us pay through the nose to support their product?

Where’s educations paypal from Microsoft for advertising and training our students to buy Microsoft OS. Not to mention fixing all the bugs in their enterprise product.

Their system of practices is geared economically to force a WAN to be governed by a common and centralised process, this only further enhances a Microsoft hold on the infrastructure in education and in the common workplace.

Plus, boot camp is not the only way to run Windows software on a Mac, and if you can’t figure that out then you have very little real inelegance to back up your post.

Why would you want to boot Windows when you have a Mac anyways, you must be a computer game geek.

I have to support the competitor because they offer us a better deal for a more in-tuned educational package.

Apple supply more resources and software for educational support in the box product.
Apple’s licence agreement is better structured for an overall educational cost effective advancement.

Yet Windows client access licences and group buy schemes that are on offer to education only makes a duel platform environment less cost effective to implement.
And the Microsoft dominance is supported by their underhanded practices at maintaining the corporate stake.

There’s plenty of free consumer products out there for UNIX that is supported by the correctly installed OSX environment.
Gaming is the only real disadvantage.

Realistically a school has to train a pupil in windows because that is what a common practice dictates.

If OSX was pushed further into the market place then there will be more common ground for an enterprise to be given a choice, a choice to make better use of a competitor, to generate a cost effective benefit to an effective pricing strategy, then everyone’s environment wins.

The only face developments I see Windows making is to essentially move all the buttons around, forcing further training, then “enhancing” out it’s last product line from the workflow.

An even market will force a developer to offer real advantages in system. Logically, realistically, strategically, economically and technologically.

Apple’s development focuses real benefits to intuitive management and intelligent design - to click administration and engineering - object based.

Seriously, you may think that Apple is the bad guy, and sure enough they are forced to play hard ball to get a market share, but in education and enterprise products - when you way up the nice guy angles, Apple is the superior Jedi Knight, focusing the future environment.

Get in the game son!!!

Peace

This article is spot on. The

This article is spot on. The Macintosh platform does not have nearly the amount of software windows has. I can go online with my Vista PC and get thousands of free programs to do anything I want, this just isn't as possible on a Macintosh. And programs like boot camp are incredibly dumb. If you want to run Windows programs, buy a windows PC, and put OS X on it,... OH WAIT you can't, because Mac doesn't let you have that freedom like Microsoft.

This Dude is right

This guy who wrote this is .. well partially right OS X' security cannot be beet But the price tag is enourmous who has 700$+ sitting around to waste on a computer with such little support for any other programs , But What I really think isnt right is that Microsoft is allowing Their OS to be on Macintosh computers but Apple isn't as nice and doesnt return the favour they are basicly saying "Buy Our Machines or Dont Use or OS if you hack we'll call our lawyers" , as seen in a previous comment " ever Herd of Bootcamp " if you want to use windows than why would you pay over 1000$+ on a mac then you need to figure out bootcamp and buy the windows OS in simple words "Mac Owners have a huge wallet" Design mac obviously beats windows theirs allot of words this guy said that I do NOT agree with yet theres more that I DO agree with hope this gives people a better look at the OS X vs Windows World.