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Post your comments for Windows 8 and OSX Lion: How Do they Compare? here

[fozzybear]

I just hope Windows 8 search isn't as broken as Windows 7.

[ChrisWhitemanxodu]

I just hope Microsoft thinks of us that love our desktops and make it so we can have win8 Metro Apps go away if we want to. I did just pick up 2 all in one PCs with touch screens so when win8 comes out I can have it on them with in a few hours and trying it out.

[MichaelMcWilliamsupu1]

Fozzy...

Windows 7..."broken"???

I think not. Its the best yet.

You must be thinking of Vista; now THAT was broken.

[MichaelMcWilliamsupu1]

Hmmm. Didn't fully read your post. You DID specify the search function. OK, I concede that can be unreliable.

[pisapiag]

It is totally ludicrous to compare a fully functioning existing product with vaporware. Total waste of time.

[KPOM]

I never got into Ubuntu, but I'm relatively platform agnostic, using Windows (Vista, unfortunately) at the office, a MacBook Air (with Windows 7 in Boot Camp), a Nexus One, and most recently a $99 WebOS tablet. I'm pretty excited about Windows 8's potential, though a lot of it depends on Microsoft's ability to execute good ideas.

Lion is much more evolutionary than Windows 8, which is a radical departure of the kind not seen since Windows 95 or the leap from OS 9 to OS X. Also, Apple maintains a split between iOS and OS X that will take a while to bridge (though rumors of an ARM-based MacBook Air suggest Intel is right to accelerate Haswell development). Windows 8 offers a merged solution starting next year. There are pluses and minuses, as you point out. Metro UI is nice with a few applications, but with a slew of corporate software in the enterprise setting, or typical bloatware in the consumer setting could make it unwieldy in practice.

[agrippa]

Can any one specify which part of windows 7 is broken?
It's Ok I can wait.......

[KLanD]

The thing I don't get about launchpad, is it's basically a second icon only desktop. It's a redundancy that is really not needed.

You have you apps in the dock, why do you need a launchpad?

The only thing I can think of is that Apple is planning to add touch to their desktop screens.

I love the win 7 search and it seems the win 8 search will be even better.

As for the gestures.. win 7 has most of those already and the ones it doesn't have, it honestly doesn't need.

Also, HP and Dell both have laptops that are "portable, powerful, and (relatively) inexpensive"

[HankRearden]

KLanD, on 14 September 2011 - 08:00 AM, said:

The thing I don't get about launchpad, is it's basically a second icon only desktop. It's a redundancy that is really not needed.

You have you apps in the dock, why do you need a launchpad?

The only thing I can think of is that Apple is planning to add touch to their desktop screens.

I love the win 7 search and it seems the win 8 search will be even better.

As for the gestures.. win 7 has most of those already and the ones it doesn't have, it honestly doesn't need.

Also, HP and Dell both have laptops that are "portable, powerful, and (relatively) inexpensive"

I expected to really dislike Lion. Instead I wish Lion was more Liony. The launch pad doesn't make sense since you have to run it. You should either get rid of the desktop and have launch pad or get rid of launch pad and keep the dock. Having both is odd. That being said, I might actually opt to get rid of the desktop in favor of launch pad. Mind you, the desktop has always been my operator. I have always downloaded to the desktop and then from there organized into folders. So doing away with the desktop would be huge. The thing is, I wouldn't get rid of the desktop for my iMac. Just my MacBook Air. I like the idea of the Air specifically being more liony. I just don't think it will work out well on large desktops. Small portable portables makes sense to me. It seems idea in a highly portable usage scenario.

Now, regarding Windows 8...

This new OS is looking mighty good. It's really taking shape and they have some rather nice features. Especially their method of full screen, apps, which two of can share a single desktop. I'd love a feature like that. Again, in my humble opinion, this makes sense for highly portable machines. I don't much care for it for large screen desktops.

The whole PC industry is starting to get interesting. It's about time too. Its felt stagnant for years.

This post has been edited by HankRearden: 14 September 2011 - 08:30 AM

[Kadidelhopper]

Another Apple fan boy. Why do they let these dopes review anything by Windows?

[KPOM]

KLanD, on 14 September 2011 - 08:00 AM, said:

I love the win 7 search and it seems the win 8 search will be even better.

As for the gestures.. win 7 has most of those already and the ones it doesn't have, it honestly doesn't need.

Also, HP and Dell both have laptops that are "portable, powerful, and (relatively) inexpensive"

Windows 7 doesn't have as many gestures as Lion or even Snow Leopard. It can use the swipes to go back in IE, natural scrolling, and more pinch and zoom features. Neither HP nor Dell have announced Ultrabooks yet. There's a big difference in portability between a MacBook Air/Ultrabook and a traditional notebook. My HP Elitebook feels very bulky compared to my MacBook Air. The Envy is better, but still not quite there yet.

[JonathanB]

if they carry on this trend and Apple do relatively nothing with OSX (as they have done since Leopard) it could halt Apple's advances in it's tracks. (I recently [primarily] converted to Mac and love it, but looking Windows 8 I think it may be time to switch back)

[Lennytfp0]

Windows will always be putting perfume and makeup on a pig - until the powers at Microsoft finally draw the line in the sand, and start with a modern foundation.

OSX is not the UI alone. The magic is in the coalescence of all the parts.

... and before the MS fanboys start their comments - I still have my shoebox with DOS 3.1 and NT disks. I come from the early days of Commander.

I work in and support MS all day. But I go home to, and feel more at ease using OSX. It's more intuitive and polished.

[CmaEnergy]

How blind do you think we are?
You know very well that the only reason to build and produce another windows system is to suck innocent people into buying more programs to replace the ones they already bought, that they will no longer be able to use.
Where is the consideration for the people who use the Internet for their good and not to fill the pockets of the selfishly motivated?
This practice of build another program to make the previous one obsolete is a good practice for a recession! Motivate by and for the profit takers of greed!

[MarekMinecki]

Windows 8 isn't due out till mid to late 2012 so the hype today is pure vaporware marketing. Who knows what it will be in the end -- could be another Vista. It is telling that over 40% of Windows users still use an over 10 year old OS -- XP. But than again Windows (8 included) is still basically NT (developed in 1989 with IBM and was going to be called OS 3.0) with lipstick.

[artzy65]

agrippa, on 14 September 2011 - 06:36 AM, said:

Can any one specify which part of windows 7 is broken?
It's Ok I can wait.......

Try to concentrate... the guy said 'search' (Search function)

[DTNick]

Kadidelhopper, on 14 September 2011 - 08:29 AM, said:

Another Apple fan boy. Why do they let these dopes review anything by Windows?

As someone who knows Nate, he's the furthest thing from a fanboy. Of any type.

[ConnorMeeblings]

I had trouble with a Win XP desktop and a Win Vista laptop. The laptop was software issues but having to contact 50 different people for a possible replacement on desktop was a pain. So I got an iMac and never went back.

[russoue]

Kadidelhopper, on 14 September 2011 - 08:29 AM, said:

Another Apple fan boy. Why do they let these dopes review anything by Windows?

I don't think the review was biased in any way. Apple products are superior to Microsoft's ones. This a fact. One does not need to be a fan to state that.