Apple has squandered the gift that was Vista

Hammer -> Nail Head. No questions about it.

Here is the thing…. I would love to have a Mac. I think OSx is really slick and it works. That said, there are a couple issues I have. It costs WAY too much. The last two laptops I have purchased were ~ $1000 < than the “equivalent” Mac Pro. $1000 is way too much for a “premium”. I would never spend that much more, ever. Not unless I become independently wealthy at least. I have more important things to spend that $1000 on. (The whole platform, 3rd party software included, is too expensive).

Another thing, and this isn’t necessarily Apple’s fault, but lack of game support. It is better. Definitely better than Linux. I will always need Windows for gaming. That is just the way it is.

I don’t get viruses, I don’t suffer mal-ware infections. It has more to do with the user than the OS. Having fewer viruses and malware type things targeting OSx isn’t really a good answer. That is changing every day and more are showing up in the wild. Remember that contest where 3 laptops, OSx, Linux, and Windows were hacked? The guy who took down the Mac said it was the easiest to compromise? Yeah, not a good sign. Sure, it is fine right now, but it might not (probably won’t) always be.

OSx doesn’t make you virus proof, just virus resistant, and only for now. It will change. Apple’s products are nice (I have an iPod and if Verizon carried the iPhone I would probably have one too). The premium is just too high for most of Apple’s products and I don’t see any value in the added cost.

Now, all that said. Windows 7 is pretty stellar and I am really excited for it. I wasn’t necessarily excited for Vista even though I like it. Windows 7 is also putting the hammer right to the nails head. It is taking Windows EXACTLY in the right direction.

This group is anything but an authority on everything that is computer related.

Read the article yourself, you are bound to get a laugh out of it. I am not sure how to describe it other than a big ball of fail.

I will have a more indepth review of my thoughts later.

However, it is total winsauce.

I just installed Win7 RC last night. Started ~10:00pm and when I went to bed at ~11:25 I had Win7 installed with all hardware drivers. Only had one reboot for the graphics driver (had full resolution w/o the driver at first boot) and the only ones I had to tell it to find, which it did on the internet and didn’t need a reboot, were 3/4 drivers for my card reader. I had installed Office 2007 Ultimate and the full CS3 from Adobe. It boots and shuts down stupidly fast.

Laptop is a T7500, 4 GB DDR, GeForce 8600M GT, 1×320 GB.