Leopard as the New Vista?

ninja_assault_kitten writes "There's an interesting rant from Oliver Rist up on the PC Magazine site. He compares the catastrophe that is Vista to the recently released OS X Leopard. While clearly one is a lion and the other a cub, there do appear to be some frustrating similarities. From the article: 'A month of using Leopard with the same software I had under Tiger and the OS has dumped six times. That's six cold reboots for Oliver. Apple isn't even honest enough to admit that Leopard is crashing: The OS just grays out my desktop and pops up a dialog box telling me I've got to reboot. Like the whole thing is my fault. I even snapped a picture of it. After all, I HAD PLENTY OF CHANCES!'"

Comments

Clearly you're mistaken

[Anonymous Coward]

Clearly you're mistaken. Apple is perfect. This must be Bill's fault.

Apple fanboi roll call!

Re:Clearly you're mistaken

[onefriedrice]

> But if I had to turn back time I'd wait until some time next year to order my copy.

Wait a second. I thought Leopard came with a time machine?

Re:Clearly you're mistaken

[iminplaya]

I hope 2008 is better.

Install Hillary? I don't think so. May as well roll back to Bush.

Roll, roll, roll in the hay

Re:Clearly you're mistaken

[Anonymous Coward]

I upgraded a bunch of clients to 10.5, to my present dismay (including my wife)

You upgraded your wife to 10.5? Awesome! Time Machine alone should make it worth every penny!

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Re:Clearly you're mistaken

[Zhe Mappel]

Remind me to never come to you for any sort of consulting.

Sure. Let me just put that reminder in Leopard's iCal and, wait, what's this? Hmm, I think there's some sort of probl

Re:Clearly you're mistaken

[skarphace]

90% of what people do with the internet is use the internet.

Really? I find this statistic hard to believe.

Rather unfortunate...

[Anonymous Coward]

Given Apples current advertising campaign.

I'm using Leopard right now

[Anonymous Coward]

And it never cras

Re:I'm using Leopard right now

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not like the browser detects an impending crash and posts whatever you've written

i hear they're adding this feature to the next Leopard patch due to popular demand.

Re:Obvious

[ludomancer]

Wow man! You're just like me! I never thought I'd find another Win98SE user out there!

Vista's been a pain, but it's never crashed on me

[joshv]

As bad as Vista's been, it's never crashed on me. 6 times in a month? Dude, get a Dell.

Re:Is this idiot for real?

[Anonymous Coward]

i've had the box be up for 180 days before i had to power it down for a memory upgrade and then the box was up for 328 days before i moved offices.

Glad to see you have Windows Update turned on...

Re:What will be interesting

[Merusdraconis]

Well, I'm sure that your heart monitoring software is far more complex than an operating system that has to deal with thousands of possible computer configurations and marshall memory and files to boot. How hard can it be to write an operating system, right? I mean, those Lunix guys did it in a couple of days, and it works absolutely flawlessly!

Re:Another Perspective

[Yakman]

I've used a few Linux GUIs, there's obviously more than 2 blind users.

Another one flaimbait on pcmag...

[hotfireball]

I had read the article. *Yaaaaaaaawnnn*... Hey, pcmag dude, I own three Macs at home and bunch of PCs, one of it Microsoft-dedicated and at the company infrastructure heavily mixed with Apple stuff. Usually, Apple OS release at the beginning is a plain crap and mostly at the edge of impossibility to use. Thus from my admin practice:

• Leopard upgrade from Tiger was easiest and painful-less upgrade I saw ever. It just freakin works, as freakin advertised. I was that surprised...

• So far it works much more stable as even Tiger 10.4.3 on its release.

• I never had any BSOD even with Developer Preview builds. Yes, I had troubles with wireless long time ago, but no BSODs.

• I had never any troubles with any software installed after upgrade. It all works and launches just fine. A bunch of third-party software I just use daily...

• Upgrades from Apple -- != service packs from Microsoft and happens much often than MS Windows OS. Here PCMag says a plain bullshit which actually drives me nuts (/. folks, please forgive me these fucking swearwords).

• You complain for you can't set up Time Machine from within Time Machine? Scattered across UI settings like a shit hits a fan sounds better to you, huh?

• For changing background or switch between 3D and 2D dock, use http://www.malcom-mac.com/pimpmydock/ thing.

• To turn off transparency, use the following command in your terminal:

  sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer 'EnvironmentVariables' -dict 'CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE' 1

• Complains overall looks kinda lame to me: better find any similarities between Apple and Vista of hardware greediness and performance. Leopard works fucking faster than Tiger on the fucking same hardware.

• I don't care about block-level backups. If Apple would do this stupid thing once, I would probably move all my ~ homefolder to Subversion over again. Hard links rocks, but chunked changed bytes equals to no backup, if your proprietary software dead.

PCMag: yawn.

Re:Worthless chatter

[martinX]

Make a complaint about an Apple product though and you run headlong into a wall of denial a mile high,

WE DO NOT

You idiot.

--------------- That should earn me loyalty points on macfanboi.com :-)

OH...MY...GOD...

[Anonymous Coward]

6 Reboots?! That's a travesty! >_>

I guess he's never used Windows 98.

Re:What will be interesting

[Basehart]

Safari 3 is rock solid for me too. I launched it immediately after upgrading to Leopard and

Re:What will be interesting

[Wiseman1024]

Apple iOperating System. Kernel panic, with class.

Rebooting suddenly got more interesting and stylish with the new Apple release. iCrashes are the best complement for your iPod, as you can switch songs while you reboot your system, in a trendy and fashionable class. (Requires iTunes.)

Apple's Digital Crash Management (DCM) technology will allow users to enjoy their crashes anywhere, everywhere.

And like any of our products, we already planned its obsolescence. The next version of the iOperating System, due who knows when, will crash less, because crashing will again become a defect Windows alone suffers.