Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista?

aalobode writes "The New York Times is running an article on the narrowing window that Apple has for beating Microsoft's Vista. According the Times, not enough has been done to capitalize on the Mac user experience versus the 'world of hurt that is Vista'. It also points out that that restructuring of Apple leaves ambiguities about Apple's exact commitment to the computer end of its business. The article calls MS Vista's certified vendors, developers and driver writers a flywheel that takes a while coming up to speed - and then becomes unstoppable."

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Vista is the next Windows Millenium

[siDDis]

Vista is the worst thing I've ever installed on a PC. I have a quite high end system. Core 2 Duo running at 3.2Ghz with 2GB ram. Still after a few months use I struggle with constantly disc swapping and 5 minutes waiting everytime I alt-tab out games, for example Warcraft 3. After a week without a reboot Vista use 1.8GB of memory. Some is probably caching, however as I said I struggle with a lot of swapping to the disc and a reboot of Vista helps A LOT!

In two years people will say that 2GB ram for Vista is minimum, and recommended amount of memory is 8GB ram(No I'm not joking). It's like when WinXP was released, 128MB was minimum, and recommended was 512MB. Today it's 256MB minimum and 1GB recommended.

My laptop with WinXP and 512MB ram is way more responsive than my desktop with Vista and 2GB ram :(

The only thing Apple needs is more (especially high end)games and I'm sure people will get a Mac next time. Imagine if Crysis were only to be released on a Mac!

Incredible Troll Author.

[Erris]

"Huge opportunity dooms Apple (Again!)"

Their main claim to doom is that people can't put their hands on a Mac in a retail setting. That's neither true nor relevant. There are plenty of places to put you hands on a Mac. The value of that five minutes of exposure is also debatable.

I don't know much about the author but a quick review shows he's not an advocate of freedom or even choice. The more I dig, the worse it gets. He seems to like M$ and has book titles like, "The Microsoft Way: The Real Story of How the Company Outsmarts Its Competition". Other major titles show equal lack of insight or forsight. It's amazing that the NYT would listen to someone like that, but hey he's a business professor who lives in San Jose, so he must know something ... right?