Comments on: Which upgrade is more worthwhile: Windows 7 or Snow Leopard?

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:19:25 +0000

Snow Leopard requires an Intel processor to work. There are ways to hack it to get it working with PowerPC but I’m not well-versed on how it would work exactly. In my opinion, I didn’t need to move on from OS 10.4, but all the cool kids were getting Leopard and subsequently Snow Leopard. I had to keep up

By: Joe Cooke

Joe Cooke — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:51:45 +0000

With a 64 Bit dual core G5 PowerPC, bought when they first appeared in 2004, I want to know if it’s worth getting Snow Leopard or is this largely just for Intel machines?

By: Smulligan

Smulligan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:09:55 +0000

First.

By: Batman

Batman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:27:12 +0000

Wrong.

10.X updates are the equivalent of XP/Vista/7 upgrades.

Your so called “service packs” are the 10.6.X updates, which Apple puts out for free as well as more frequently than Microsoft’s Service Packs.

By: Batman

Batman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:25:00 +0000

Which is more worthwhile?

Look at it this way:

Short term? Windows 7, clearly. Vista was an absolute failure, and they went and fixed all (or most of) the problems with it. But it’s all built on the previous OS, which is why every time the basic hardware requirements have gone up. Windows continuously sucks up more resources.

Long term? Snow Leopard. PowerPC code is gone, everything is optimized for 64bit / Intel chips. They’re recoding programs to work in Cocoa (which is some programming language I will not bother to learn about), meaning everything will be snappier while using less memory. You may not see all thee updates on the front end, but they are setting the stage for whatever comes next.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:30:32 +0000

LINUX 4 LIFE!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:49:46 +0000

Going back to the “swallow the pill, you know you want to” ethic they’ve successfully adapted.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:19:13 +0000

Snow Leopard should have been a free upgrade. But this is what apple does.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:11:35 +0000

I partially agree. I feel that the cost of both software packages makes the obvious choice Snow Leopard. That being said, why did Apple charge us for something that Microsoft may not have charged us for? This would be a moot debate if Apple gave Leopard investors this upgrade for free.

By: sham

sham — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:09:09 +0000

I dont have either because I wanna punch the economy in the face.