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Leopard as the New Vista?

Posted by Zonk on from the angry-apple-man-scares-me dept.

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!'"

12 of 734 comments (clear)

  1. Rather unfortunate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Given Apples current advertising campaign.

  2. I'm using Leopard right now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And it never cras

  3. Re:Obvious by ludomancer · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  4. Vista's been a pain, but it's never crashed on me by joshv · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  5. Re:What will be interesting by Merusdraconis · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

  6. Re:Another Perspective by Yakman · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  7. Re:Worthless chatter by martinX · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

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  8. Re:Clearly you're mistaken by onefriedrice · · Score: 5, Funny

    > 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?

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  9. Re:What will be interesting by Basehart · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  10. Re:Clearly you're mistaken by iminplaya · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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  11. Re:Clearly you're mistaken by Zhe+Mappel · · Score: 2, Funny
    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

  12. Re:Clearly you're mistaken by skarphace · · Score: 4, Funny

    90% of what people do with the internet is use the internet.
    Really? I find this statistic hard to believe.
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