Thursday, October 18, 2007

Somebody set us up the Leopard...

With less than 8 days till launch, Leopard is hunkered down in a tree, set to pounce all over the pregnant baboon microsoft. like others, I've found myself on the brink of taking the plunge back to XP after working with vista for nearly 6 months. Vista leaves a lot to be desired, a lot of broken apps, and millions of obsolete PCs. many of the "off the shelf" computers sold barely meet the minimum requirements to run any version of Vista, while nearly any Mac as old as 5 years will run Leopard without a hitch. while i wouldn't go so far as to call it "windows ME 2", i do agree with many who feel the price, lack of support, and the general feeling of 'tell me again, why this is better than xp' settling in.

Number of versions at launch:

Vista: six
OS 10.5: one

price at launch:

Vista Ultimate: $399(full version)
OS 10.5: $129, 5 licenses for $199(full version)

$40/computer, sounds like a bargain to me...


...and now for someone thinking different


3 comments:

Smoochies said...

Apple rocks and you know it.

klkatz said...

my work computer has new versions of office, which had a slight learning curve (it took me 15 minutes to find the "save as"), but thankfully they're pretty traditional and have XP safely running on all machines.

C-Man, i'll take your word for it and stay away from vista, like a homophobic inmate stays away from the shower.

Bob said...

Wow; it’s funny how that guy in the video looks like an unemployed car salesman. I’ll bet he sold Bill G. his first Cadillac. They kind of dress alike, too.