Windows Journalist Takes On Tiger

BRSQUIRRL writes "Paul Thurrott has posted a review of Mac OS X 'Tiger' on his SuperSite for Windows. He gives it a score of 4 out of 5. Interesting to get a Microsoft Windows journalist's take on Tiger, especially one as hardcore as Thurrott. In the article, he actually confesses that he has 'been a Mac fan [his] entire life.' Interesting, considering some of his criticism of Apple's work in the past."

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From iPods to Mac's

[Mr_Silver]

I understand that Jobs would like people to buy an iPod, see how cool it is and then graduate onto a Mac - however following my recent purchase of a 60 gig iPod I've found that:

• I couldn't get an Apple case for it on the day or weeks later.
• I can't buy the remote without paying for another set of headphones which, if I wanted, I'd buy seperately.
• The only Apple alternative to a case is the socks, yet I have to pay more for 5 of which i'll only use 1 (maybe 2)

So based on this experience alone (and remember, this will be the experience of most buyers of Apple items - ie. they've never seen or used OSX before):

1. Recently released products that require what are almost universally considered essential accessories simply aren't there when you come to buy your product.
2. Some accessories contain more items than you require and so you end up paying a premium for things that you'll never need or want to use (4 ipod socks, another set of crappy Apple headphones)

Sure, I know I'm wrong, I know that I still want a Mac Mini but for the uninformed first time buyer of Apple's products, their iPod experience might not be as good as Apple would like.

(ps. it's now months later and you still cannot get an Apple branded 60 gig case, although some other branded ones are starting to arrive)

Re:everyone is an apple fan at some point.

[gl4ss]

microsoft doesn't support a wide variety of hardware.. .. the hardware developers support windows.

* It doesn't have to worry how it works on XYZCorp's motherboard or whether it will support the next version of Podunk Inc's sound card.* microsoft doesn't worry about things like that, again, it's the HARDWARE DEVELOPERS who worry about that(and write drivers for their hardware so that it works on windows, not the other way around).