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Mac OS X Versus Windows Vista

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the no-holds-barred dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With Macworld set to start Jan. 8, InformationWeek has a detailed comparison that pits Mac OS X against Vista. According to reviewer John Welch, OS X wins hands down. The important point: he doesn't say Vista is bad, just that technically speaking, OS X remains way ahead. Do you agree?"

3 of 697 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It doesn't matter by Yonzie · · Score: 5, Informative
    come on, make ALL of those popup dialogs keyboard accessible!
    They are.
    Use [tab] to select and [space] to "click". You need to look after the faint blue highlight around the button though, and if you press [Enter], the blue button is selected, not the higlight.
  2. Re:Wrong. XNU source code is no longer available. by Megane · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since the x86 switch, Apple no longer makes the XNU source code available.

    Wrong. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/07/ 2359256

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  3. Re:It doesn't matter by Joe+U · · Score: 5, Informative

    The thing about PC gaming is that games on PC don't really use the operating system at all

    Except for the sound, video, keyboard, mouse, monitor, network card, hdd, cd/dvd and other drivers the OS provides.

    Windows isn't just the fancy GUI, it's a standard interface to non-standard hardware. Anyone who used DOS for gaming will remember the absolute nightmare of getting sound, video, network and CD drivers all running for every game.