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

Re:Obvious

[countach]

I used Tiger for a year and probably had it crash maybe 4 times in that time. I've been using Leopard since it came out and no crashes.

I admit that some of the new stuff in leopard is a bit lame, but some of it simply rocks. The built-in VNC screen sharing for example, blows away 3rd party VNC in both speed and ease of use. Also Time Machine, while I'd prefer if it had more options, also rocks in terms of design and ease of use.

So I don't think the comparison fits at all. I've used Vista and I think the problems with it are deep seated. Leopard could do with a bit of maturing before it is perfect, but I don't see any great problem with it here and now.

Re:Clearly you're mistaken

[ozmanjusri]

And partly because macs are supposed to work without any problems. And frankly, there's no excuse for them not to.

They might have a slight excuse.

They are getting ready for the inclusion of a Win32 compatibility layer in OSX, so a little instability at OS level's not unexpected. At least those PE files will feel right at home...