Comments on: Leopard: Faster, Easier Than Vista

By: Larry Smith

Larry Smith — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:04:51 +0000

I also forgot to mention that possibly the Mac market is only at 20% because a lot of people feel the same way I do about how much they are willing to spend on a computer. It is so easy to find ads in the paper on Sunday for a $449 duo core with 2 gigs of memory. If you happen to be raising a family or on a tight budget or both the extra $750 dollars can go a long way toward a lot of other things. If your computer usage calls for a Mac then you will probably have one. I am fine with that. I do understand that they are great puters, dont get me wrong on that. I have a Mac guy where I work and he just helped a 50+ yr. old guy buy his first computer it was an Imac which is fine but so far the only thing he uses it for is to buy Itunes which he could do on any puter the extra $$ would have bought him a lot more music!!

By: Larry Smith

Larry Smith — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:57:46 +0000

Ok admittedly I have never had a mac. I acknowledge that many people love them and thats fine. I will probably never buy another computer that costs over $500. THIS is my issue with MAC and the HIGH END PCs.
In 1999 I bought my first gateway computer for about $2300. I had a friend tell me that my new 450 mh P3 / 64 mgb ram, 9 gig hd and windows 98 was more computer than I would EVER need. Well I guess you can imagine how that panned out.
Recently I purchased a used desktop from ebay for $115 add $50 for S&H I maxed out the RAM to 2 gigs for a price of $122 out the door at Best Buy. I have a 2.66 P4 and I swapped out the HD to an 80 gig that I had purchased for my old gateway. I purchased a used 14 inch flat panel monitor for $25 from a yard sale and other than about once a week it goes blank and I have to push “AUTO ADJUST” to get my picture back it works fine. I know, I know, not even a dual core processor but hey the price was right. So I have $337 total wrapped up into this puter (by the way my boy bought me a nice DVD rewriter for christmas) so that would have cost me more but I got lucky there. I am running XP sp2 of course. so after getting my current puter on ebay I GAVE my old one away! $2200 and I just GAVE it away, FREE.
I know I dont have all the fancy bells and whistles that you guys have with your fancy puters but,,,you cant miss using what you never had in the first place.
My other thing is this…If my first puter was more than I would ever need and it became virtually useless due to everchanging products, what makes everyone think that someplace out there somebody has an idea that will blow away VISTA AND MAC OSs making them obsolete. MAC may be all that but the one thing it isnt is an inexpensive entry level computer!

By: beng bakarbessy

beng bakarbessy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:13:45 +0000

hello mr.Walt, i’m using Mac G5 PPC processor with Leopard. I found it’s very difficult to use instant messaging like Adium and Yahoo Messenger.
Could you tell me, what’s wrong on my system?

By: Chris Wilkerson

Chris Wilkerson — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:10:50 +0000

Leopard is definitely faster to boot to the desktop (less compatibility variables to load) but once in the desktop, that advantage does not exist. At least that is my experience on my Boot camp Imac.

By: Graham Klerks

Graham Klerks — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:01:26 +0000

It amazes me how little some people know about what their actually talking about.

Have you ever wondered why Apple never sold their OS or other systems ? The stability OS X users enjoy is the exact same reason Windows and Linux users enjoy such flexibility with their hardware. Apple only have to ensure their OS works with THEIR internal hardware, no-one elses.

I’m a long-time Windows user, going on 11 years now, right from the Windows 95 days. This is my second mac (Black Macbook) my first foray into the Mac world wasn’t as rosy, but I believe Apple and OS X have come even further in those seven year’s. OS X is such a mature OS now, If I could have had an OS X Media Centre I would’ve.

Only Vista allows me the flexibility of what hardware I want – such as a TV Tuner and a VFD coupled with the ability to record/playback DVD/Video/TV. I’ll have Vista installed on my Quad-Core Water-Cooled PC by the weekend. Why ? cos I encode Video & play games, again VistaXP currently offers the best OS.

I tinker with Computers quite a bit, I’ve had a HP Laptop for 3.5 years and was sick of it running slow, being awkward, crashing and not ‘just working’ this is why I bought a macbook. I can use a mac, to help make PC’s work. Ironic huh? Mac needs MSN Video (it shouldn’t, but asking ppl to download AIM/iChat/Skype isn’t right either) and better networking with VistaXP.

Windows Users: 64Bit comes as standard in OS X I invite anyone to try Mac and not be impressed.

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By: Stephen Long

Stephen Long — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:46:55 +0000

Um… more than have of new Japanese computer purchases are Macs, and growth is massive in the college market in the US. Seems like a pretty big incentive for hackers, and yet there still aren’t problems.

I think that someone will eventually figure it out, but it’s pretty clear that something about the basic form of the OS is harder to crack.

By: Jonathan Tilney

Jonathan Tilney — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:10:33 +0000

Amazing comments here which try to bring Leopard OSX down to the level of Vista. My take is:

1. OSX is 32bit and 64bit all in one.

2. OSX is dual chip in one (Intel/PPC)

3. Mac hardware runs Unix, OSX and Windows.

5. In contrast Vista can’t even play nicely with itself.

You only want OSX. I show it to Windows users who are completely stunned.

What? It’s so fast? No antivirus software? You only reboot once a week? It doesn’t slow down over time? It’s that easy to use? It’s that compatible? etc etc.. And that’s all before Multi-Touch from iPhone has arrived.

Sorry, but the people attempting to level the playing field either have vested interests in Windows, or are very scared of change.

But the reality is it’s game over, with Windows looking more like cheese to OSX’s diamond.

By: albert di sesto

albert di sesto — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:32:50 +0000

I am always surprised when I read some sentences on professional reviews.

The fact that you can run MS Vista (or XP, or Linux) on an Apple computer is an obvious advantage for Mac owners.

However, this possibility depends on the fact that MS operating systems or Linux are able to use more hardware components than Mac OS. The fact should not be listed among the pros of Mac OS, but among the pros of Vista, Linux, or XP.
Some problems affecting non-apple OSs depend also on the number of hardware components they aim to use.
- albert

By: Hari Geninazza

Hari Geninazza — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:40:40 +0000

I teach English, and many educated students ask me to confirm whether English seems poorer than Spanish. But they nod their heads when I ask them “How much English do you know… compared to Spanish?”.
Like that, I liked Apple from a distance.

But last year I had to work at the office many hours every single day (photo, video, wordprocessing, the web, etc.) with a G5 iMack 20″ and Tiger OS. I learnt and used (some of) those tweaks and shortcuts that make you “a regular user”. After 9 months I would answer:

“Better, more powerful, more efficient?” I don’t know, but at least as much so as XP.

“More comfortable, nicer, smoother, clearer?” I would say so. And -as a test- I even burned DVDs while doing other computer work. No problems.

“Safety, system crashes, viruses, reboot to solve a frozen system?” What’s that? I never heard of those. (Honestly, I think in 9 months I had ONE or TWO “frozen systems” while running programs, audio, video, etc. all at the same time. With similar usage patterns, I have several freezes a week in Windows.)

I used to ask about Macs to my (very religious) friend R. Moses (I give his name in case he should get copyrights on such a wonderful quote). Until one day he answered: “Stop asking those small questions; this is not science, it’s religion. Choose your god and follow it.”

In a way, with all your (our) discussions, we are doing it like that, aren’t we?

But, for heaven’s sake! Let’s keep on discussing, that’s how we all learn!

Thanks