Re: Mac Leopard OS, Impressive

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:37:15 +0100, "Rob Nicholson"
<rob.nicholson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It leaves me wondering where the innovation is at Microsoft. Vista
doesn't offer much more than XP. Apple's new OS, on the other hand,
continues to innovate.

We've just finished looking through the video and I agree - it looks very
nice. As a hardened Windows user, I'm am starting to wonder if Microsoft has
lost it. I just plain hate Vista - don't get on with at all. But I'm sat
here thinking "hmm, time to put in a purchase order for a Mac to have a look
myself".

As busy IT support people, the concept of Spaces was the most important
thing we saw. I want that NOW on Windows XP... The time machine looks very
useful for home users - not sure about commercial environment. The ability
to remove you background in iChat and replace it with something else is
really cool :-)

Cheers, Rob.

I've decided to pick up an iMac tonight -- the least expensive 20"
one. It has the "superdrive" (aka DVD burner), and a 250G hard drive,
a good keyboard and acceptable mouse. It's a fun all-in-one.

I would have gone with a laptop but I don't like user reviews of
persistent heat problems. Also, it doesn't make sense for me to have
a Windows and Mac laptop -- when portable, any laptop will do.

I am going to get the mac.com account that has 10GB of storage on the
web, blog, share pictures, etc. Sure -- I could do that on my own, I
am trained for it, but I don't want to.

Leopard comes with boot camp so one can boot up to Windows. I am
going to get Fusion so I can run Windows and the Mac OS's at the same
time. I tried this out at an Apple store and the performance was very
acceptable.

I also love spaces -- these are the kinds of things Vista could have
had and should have. The 3-D navigation of Vista is really the only
user-interface improvement, and it's something that I don't use. With
Vista, the taskbar buttons can't even be moved -- that's ridiculous --
that is the kind of thing that obviously would be a useful
improvement.

I think the Mac is going to take serious market share away from
Microsoft and will do so at the time the Chinese consumer market will
be heating up. Apple is opening a store there next year (I know, big
deal -- one store, but there are logistics setting up the first one
and then many can follow).

Apple also releases OS updates quicker than MS, so there will be one
or two before MS's next OS comes out.

It will be interesting to see what kinds of things I move to my Mac.
Video and pictures will be one. I am really interested in seeing
iWork's updated Word Processor and Spread*** programs. It's also
going to be fun to use mac.com.

Imagine that -- putting the fun back into computing!
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