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A Mac Fan's Take On Vista
jcatcw writes "Ken Mingis has been running Vista on a MacBook Pro for a couple of weeks. Highlights from his review: 'Apple's UI is called Aqua. Microsoft calls its interface Aero. Hmmmm... Gadgets and widgets. What's that line about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery?... The UAC implementation in Vista is heavy-handed and intrusive — it halts what you're doing, even if you want to do something as simple as change your clock. My sense here is that Microsoft has been criticized so often for security vulnerabilities that it decided to club users over the head with its new operating system-in-lockdown-mode... I'm more enamored of Vista's Flip 3D feature, which basically takes all of the open windows on your desktop, stands them up on end and stacks them in a way that you can cycle through to the one you want to use. It's similar to what Apple's Expose does... Vista's method wins on aesthetics.'"
Duh he -IS- a Mac user!
I am a mac user too and quite honestly except for the new "Ohhs and Ahhs" it does not seem to be much different than XP. Granted, now you get some integration of built-in applications but it still PALES in comparison to iLife.
I call bs. 10000 photos and 7000 songs on a beta OS with no mention of backups as your primary media server? Even if it were true it's a horrible idea to take advice from someone so cavalier.
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
"been a pretty crappy OS ever since they first came out with Win95, and stability/ease of use hasn't gotten much better since."
Translation: I haven't used Windows in 11 years, but since this is slashdot, I'm still perfectly credible as long as I bash Microsoft.
How about you grow up and maybe actually try something before you make baseless and blatantly untrue comments?
>Did anybody else initially read that headline as "A Fat Man's Take on Vista"?
/me runs for cover
No, bud I did read it as "A Mac Fag's take on Vista".
Compiz/Beryl on LINUX blow both mac and vista away theres just no comparisono mpiz_graphics
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2915/linux_xglc
and this is old
also im not sure if it shows off some of the best features like being able to 'shrink' all windows down so they all fit on the screen at once so you can easily see/pick between them, or you can select between windows of only a certain type
also the alt-tab shows a preview of what that window looks like before you switch to it which is great
the 3D 'cube' for desktops is much cooler than anything the other two have going (desktop switch wise i mean)
only one guy mentions it on the whole thread (and called it Xgl, which isnt even needed anymore)
Good thing that this particular feature remains unchanged.
someday, perhaps, the geek may learn that the occasional reboot of XP is not an issue that most users give a damn about one way or the other. it will be even less an issue in Vista.
consider it filed and forgotten along with the geek's endless blather about the Microsoft Tax.