Re: Ensure your New PC will run Vista


"George Graves" <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <uq0042tsbqsddb4g5jatbaipa4d9oncun1@xxxxxxx>,
tom_elam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:10:57 GMT, George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

That's because Apple moves their OS forward with new features and
capabilities, while "new" Windows OSes are just service packs for the
"same old ***." XP isn't a much different experience from Win98 and is
certainly just as clunky.

Excuse me, but Win2000 and XP are as different from 98 as OS X is from
OS 9.

Among other MANY things, 2000/XP:

- got rid of user and gdi heap space limits
- went to NTFS from FAT32
- 32 bit code throughout
- vastly improved home and wireless networking
- gave us much more robust PnP
- added support for more Web services
- offered protected files (still needs work)
- improved multitasking performance
- much faster bootup and shutdown
- cleaner software uninstalls
- much improved RAM/VM management/performance
- improved overall OS stability
- much more logical Control Panel
- improved account management
- prefetch
- faster hibernate and standby
- removed limits on file size
- Media Edition capabilities added
- much improved file search
- much faster application start
- improved video performance
- improved language support
- improved support for the disabled
- etc.

Of course, since it more or less looks the same in Classic view, you
think it has not changed. Based on that, the only difference between
OS 9 and OS X is prettier icons and the Dock.

Not so. Few of the things you mention above affect "look and feel". The
OS is still the same to the user. It started as an unclear metaphor
confused by copying disparate elements from different sources and mixing
them all together; a little Mac, a little Amiga, a dash of DEC, an Iota
of IBM OS/2, and voila the Frankenstein's monster known as Windows was
-er- born. OTOH. the Mac ditched an old fashioned core OS with no memory
protection, no threaded multitasking, no actual multiprocessor support
in favor of a solid and bulletproof Unix underpining based on a Mach
Kernel and then added to it an excellent and intuitive GUI. And although
there are many aspects of the old Mac OS that I, personally, miss,
Overall, there's little doubt that MacOSX is the best OS on the planet.

Absolutely - the Huge market share, proves that.


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