Leopard: Faster, Easier Than Vista
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| In fact, every piece of software and hardware I tried on two Leopard-equipped
| Macs -- a loaned laptop from Apple and my own upgraded iMac -- worked fine,
| exhibiting none of the compatibility problems that continue to plague Vista.
| My old Hewlett-Packard inkjet printer, for which Vista lacks the proper
| software, worked instantly in Leopard, even over the network. And, unlike
| with Vista, it was able to print on both sides of the page. I popped my old
| Verizon cellphone modem card into the test Leopard laptop and it worked, too,
| with no software installation or tweaking.
|
| Leopard felt about as fast as Tiger, and it started up much faster than Vista
| in my tests.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119326655774870521.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo
Related:
Analyst slams Vista's 'backward' UI
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| Windows Vista is a step back in usability, researcher claims
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http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsID=17334
Vista Irritations
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| According to this Slashdot article, copying, moving and deleting
| files is slower under Vista. At least now I know why extracting a
| compressed file under Vista is like watching paint dry/grass grow
| (I've only tried using Winzip 11).
|
| [...]
|
| Now we name our directory and it?s done right? Not quite, because
| after typing your directory name and pressing enter, it's time
| for yet more prompts...
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http://harrisben.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/vista-irritations/
Vista: Slow and Dangerous
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| Most of the time I spent testing Vista was with sluggish pre-release
| versions. I expected things to improve when I ran the finished software
| on PCs configured for the new Windows version. I now realize that
| Vista really is slow unless you throw a lot of hardware at it.
| Microsoft claims it will run with 512 megabytes of memory. I had
| recommended a minimum of a gigabyte, but 2 GB is more like it if
| you want snappy performance.
|
| [...]
|
| The most exasperating thing about Vista, though, is the security
| feature called User Account Control. UAC, satirized in an Apple
| ad as a security guy who constantly interrupts a conversation,
| appears as a pop-up asking permission before Windows...
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http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/BusinessWeek/2007/03/26/3124001
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