Everyone has been waiting for Vista SP1 to come out, thinking that surely it will fix all of the problems that Vista has (like running many programs at half the speed on the same hardware). Well, it doesn’t seem to make a lick of difference:
Bottom Line: If you’ve been disappointed with the performance of Windows Vista to date, get used to it. SP1 is simply not the panacea that many predicted. In the end, it’s Vista’s architecture – not a lack of tuning or bug fixes – that makes it perform so poorly on systems that were “barn-burners” under Windows XP.
Oh, Mr. Jobs… there’s an opportunity here, if you’re not too busy concentrating on the iPhone and iPod… hint, hint… 😉
Considering how buggy Leopard reportedly is, all the data on the source drive if a target drive gets unplugged prematurely, for example, getting completely wiped out, it appears that Steve Jobs is trying to make MacOS into the next Vista.
I’d actually half-considered getting an Apple as my next computer if they either bug-fix Leopard or the next six-month OS upgrade is a lot better (which it could be), simply because they can smoothly run both Windows and MacOS software now, as well as *nix stuff, even natively a lot of the time. Of course, they’re somewhat more expensive per-spec, which probably means I’ll stick with a generic PC. (Resale value’s a lot higher for an Apple though, with a PC, you just chuck it.)
You could always put together a cheap Hackintosh. 😉
No thanks, I think I’ll stick with PCs, short of a thoroughly unexpected infusion of cash for a Macbook Pro, about the only one I like the specs of in the line-up. (And at that price, I could get a very good PC notebook.)