Dreric1kansas Macsightings: The Battle for your desktop

Dreric1kansas Macsightings: The Battle for your desktop

In PC mag, The Battle for your desktop (p.87-92) latest issue March 2008 by Eric Griffin

Rates 9 areas and the performance of Mac OSX 10.5.1 Leopard, Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Ubuntu 7.10 (Linux)

for Mac OSX scores
Price 4/5
Installation 5/5
Interface 5/5
Bundled software 4.5/5
3rd party software 3.5/5
drivers hardware 3.5/5
networking 4/5
security 4/5
final score 4/5

The winner OSX Leopard
http://www.pcmag.com/appleosx105
"is the pick for the mythical user who wants secure easy installation amd easy to master. " That you can also run windows, linux onthe Intel macs to use all or any of them as you please.

linux was counted ahead of both windows.

The bottom line that was said: if you are happy with your OS you don't have to switch. If you try a different OS back up your other stuff.
Considerations for the Mac OS includes best for: videography, web surfing (any) , Artist/ Musicians

What's New in Leopard
The latest update to OS X makes the strongest case yet for PC users to switch from Windows.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2260668,00.asp

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