Showing posts with label Leopard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leopard. Show all posts

Monday, February 18, 2008

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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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Steve Jobs delivers the MacNews at Macworld

The rumors were true. A new latpop, movie rental and more. Here is the scoop. from Macworld News Alert. January 15th, 2008
Breaking news from Macworld - The Mac Product Experts

Steve Jobs delivered his annual keynote address at Macworld Expo Tuesday, introducing a new
thin notebook, movie rentals via the iTunes Store, companion hardware for Leopard's Time Machine back-up feature, and software updates for the iPhone and iPod touch.

More at
http://www.macworld.com/article/131486/2008/01/liveupdate.html?lsrc=newsalert


* The MacBook Air, Apple is billing as the world's thinnest
notebook
http://www.macworld.com/article/131583/2008/01/macbookair.html?lsrc=newsalert

* The Time Capsule companion device to Leopard's Time Machine feature
http://www.macworld.com/article/131579/2008/01/capsule.html?lsrc=newsalert

* iPhone features via a software update
http://www.macworld.com/article/131581/2008/01/iphoneupdate.html?lsrc=newsalert

* The $19.99 iPod touch software update
http://www.macworld.com/article/131584/2008/01/touchupdate.html?lsrc=newsalert

* The Apple TV update
http://www.macworld.com/article/131582/2008/01/appletv.html?lsrc=newsalert

* iTunes movie rentals
http://www.macworld.com/article/131580/2008/01/itunesmovierentals.html?lsrc=newsalert

We'll have more in-depth coverage of these and other announcements
throughout the week. Stay on top of all the news by visiting our
Macworld Expo topic center:

http://www.macworld.com/topics/macworld_expo.html?lsrc=newsalert