Why can’t the man use whatever operating system he wants to? I mean, honestly, I got a copy of VMWareFusion recently and unfortunately have been unable to find time to install Vista on my Macbook pro. But I will! There are some things that just work nicer on a Vista machine. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love my MBP and wouldn’t give it up for some $499 Dell, but look at ALL of the free software there is out there for Vista, and then TRY to find me a video converter that will go from .asf to .mov for free on a mac! There isn’t one! For that alone I will add on Vista to my MBP and spare myself the hassle of using someone else’s cheapo PC to convert videos.

You’re correct, Adam – the whole debate is, has always been, and will always be childish.

I have had so many issues with Leopard. I have replaced my RAM (Apple RAM, covered by Apple Care) 4 times and have had to install Leopard clean 3 different times, because Apple support and the Geniuses said that was the only thing they knew how to do to resolve my issues. They told me that 3 different times. Wow! Really? That’s the resolve?

I know how to manage my computer, and any hardware/software needs some sort of maintenance. Even if its running Disk Utility, nothing JUST WORKS. It is ignorant to make that kind of statement. It isn’t the nature of hardware and software to run forever with no maintenance.

Regardless of the issues I have had, I am still a Mac user. There are issues on the Windows side, too. I am choosing to stick with my Mac issues.

I just think it’s plain ignorant when people mount personal attacks over which OS or computer is better. It’s a computer.

Using Vista may not not be like taking drugs but I guess you’d know ‘cos you’re obviously on plenty.

These issues you are talking about with OS 10, do you mean the beta that shipped alongside OS9?

The first version that shipped on it’s own and that was expected to be the main system was 10.2 “jaguar” and that managed to implement a switch to a totally new Unix architecture whilst retaining seamless virtualised legacy support and we now know it was supporting X86 machines at the same time.

“Longhorn” stillbirthed when they couldn’t even implement a new filesystem, let alone metadata search.

It’ll now be down to Windows 7 to implement eye-candy that is actually usefull (i.e the rolladex of doom vs expose) whilst doing away with the pyramid-on-it’s-head nature of the current code.

You obviously have very very low requirements and standards and are typical of the “it’ll do and anyway everyone else uses it” mediocrity and lowest common denominator demographic that keeps Microsoft in business.

Pathetic really.

Or are you simply trying to get flame hits?

now this doesn’t happen with all of them, we’ve had many people very happy with vista, and doing other upgrades & installs on some of the vista machines there have been absolutely no problems, less/no spyware, extremely stable (as long as the hardware is good)

as for organization, people think differently, what one person thinks “makes sense” is not true for everyone else. For myself the Mac OS and organization of data makes sense, and means I don’t really organize so much as just do things. But I also many times have sold windows based systems to people, for them it was the best tool to get the job done.

I still use Windows at school, but the computers there are horrible… they run something called ” Deep Freeze”. What it does is basically wipes everything thats not supposed to be on the computer.

Honestly, I am considering using Boot Camp on my MacBook to run Vista also, because there are some parts of Windows that I miss… but we will see.