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A First Look at Windows 7 and Snow Leopard (Finally)

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Hmm... seems like (although this guy seems pretty technical) he's also been jaded by a few specific edge cases and made generalized decisions based on those edge cases that prevented him from finding a proper solution to the problem. (This sentence is full of fail, but that's how it streamed out of my head, sorry in advance)

I'd call him a "noob" in my circle of friends. A lot of people will tell you "you can't do this and that and the other with X, Y, or Z platform" when the truth is, you can.

I was immediately turned off when he said that Leopard was a step backwards in the OS X world. I've never heard something so absurd in my entire life. Every OS that Apple has released has become exceptionally better each and every time. I'd hate my life if I was stuck on an old PPC Tiger machine.

> I'd hate my life if I was stuck on an old PPC Tiger machine

I have one of those - youtube constantly reminds you to install a modern browser (eg Firefox, Chrome) but there's none working on this machine actually!

I'm sorry. Why do we care about such article?

meh. love what you want for your own reasons. my mac does widescreen displays just fine, so does my win7 notebook. they also both suck in their own ways. build your own perfect machine if you're so damn picky, then you can't blame anyone but yourself.

He's not being "picky" though, he's complaining legitimately about things which are supposed to work, or work reliably (or predictably), and don't, despite being built by huge companies with the resources to make them work right.

I can't say much more about this, because the whole subject gets my blood boiling too quickly for me to make much sense. I'll just say that I really wish I could tie some of you guys to a chair, in a room with me, while I try to coach one of my clients through using their new computer. (Like the older couple that made the switch from WebTV to a Mac last week ... that was an adventure.) For example, if my clients are anything to go by, there are huge numbers of people who are afraid of updating their software, ever. That is a problem!

Unrelated: hey cool, saundby is right around the corner from me. I'm in Grass Valley. I run up to Colfax Max for burgers and shakes all the time. Neat!

Not a high quality review, more like a few micro rants and tunnel vision comments about various features. Summary: he generally wasn't impressed by either Windows 7 or Snow Leopard, though ranted a bit more about the latter.

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