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Question of the Week: Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7?

26th Oct 2009

Comments

1. You're only as good as your last OS, so it's surely not Windows 7! Snow Leopard surely. Can I have a new Mac now please?

   By Peter Smith on 26/10/2009

2. I wouldn't touch Windows 7 with a barge pole, Snow Leopard crippled our fonts for a couple of days, but it's been great since then. Windows keep copying all Apple's ideas anyway.

   By Ben Brown on 26/10/2009

3. Isn't this a bit one sided can we not add extra "better" operating systems into the mix.. perhaps Linux? But if i had to choose out of those two it would be Snow Leopard

   By David Burnhope on 26/10/2009

4. In the interest of balance, I'd like to add that Windows 7 kicks ass. Leaner, faster, more stable and considerably more pretty than vista. I do like Snow Leopard, but that was really a minor tweat of Leopard. Windows 7 is what Vista should have been.

   By Jason Burrows on 26/10/2009

5. How do you give Snow Leopard such high praise for value when you can't run it on anything but the computers Apple sells you? Even if it were free, you're going to have to own a Mac to run it, which means you've probably sunk about twice as much money into a computer as you would for anything running Windows.

   By Patrick Ng on 26/10/2009

6. But Windows 7 was all my idea - I asked Microsoft to make it a lot clearer to see what I am doing and they did...me, me, me! In all seriousness - I think if I had a mac I'd prefer it but as I don't... :0(

   By Haley Last on 26/10/2009

7. I have to say though, the TV ad for Windows is a very good idea. "Designed by Me" is a smart premise, really clever simple strapline.

   By Ben Brown on 26/10/2009

8. Still having the odd bedding in issues with Snow Leopard, but every time I fire up a pc it makes me feel a little bit grumpy. So it's mac and Snow Leopard for me.

   By Tom Marrows on 26/10/2009