Sorry man, but you are spreading some bad information. There's -tons- of real support RIGHT NOW. This isn't the days of old. Vendors have had real Windows 7 drivers for months. I have been running it for months and it's perfect - as is support for it. There isn't a single thing missing, and I run a ton of odd peripherals and devices. Please don't spread bad info based on the old days.

 

I have to say having used and seen the Windows 7 beta it does indeed look like a very significant upgrade and it is probably the OS that Vista promised to be but fell short. Mind you, Apple has Snow Leopard due for release shortly and that moves the game forward too. OS 10.6 offers very robust support for multi-core processors and with Open CL etc the machine will be able to take advantage of the incredibly fast processors in the GPU to perform regular computing tasks.

 

Apple should finally get the best SSD drives as an option soon... The new Intel "gen 2" SSDs don't have any halogen in them, which is why green companies like Apple wouldn't touch them previously.


The new ones are incredible, and cheaper also.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=3607

 

Yeah, we'll see - that's all stuff Windows can do already, but Snow Leopard should be a nice improvement for Mac users.

I wasn't saying we'd have apples to compare to apples (no pun intended). All I was saying was that Apple has been enjoying the comforts afforded by an adversary with non-competitive products (at least non-competitive where Apple finds success in the marketplace). XP is ancient and lacks features, Vista has a bad reputation and is a bit clunky.

The battlefield is changing.

 

+1!!!

 

Yeah and mouths say that with the rumors of the future Google OS, Microsoft would have to completely rethink and rewrite Windows. Now why this didn't happen already for MS is beyond my understanding but i assume they would simply not be Microsoft if that was the case.

Will post source tomorrow.

 

You'd better bring arguments to discussion. I brought mine. That's what separates a mature and intelligent discussion from one based on expressions like "Fan-boy", which btw i don't even understand if that was supposed to affect me in any way.

From wikpedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_(pe...nboy.2Ffangirl
Now i know which people use the term and which people are targeted by the term and hence here goes away the "mature and intelligent discussion" i was talking about earlier.

 

Just a couple of things - Mac OS X already supports and leverages multi-core processors too, the new Grand Central technology just takes this to another level. With respect to offloading to the GPU, Open CL is an Apple developed technology which they made open source in partnership with the video card manaufacturers (Intel, AMD/ATI and NVidia are involved). I'd not seen much else out there other than technology demos using some NVidia cards that support CUDA which, like OpenCL, is still largely a new technology. I may have missed it but I didn't think that this was a mainstream component in the current versions of Windows?

 

Eh, I work in IT so basically I just work with whatever is required. Both MS and Apple have their quirks, give me a CLI any day of the week and I'm a happy camper. Gotta love it when you can do all config in a text file, upload and done

 

I agree!!! I've been using apple producst since the 80's and have never had a problem with them thus far.. My office uses Vista and its always crashing so we are in the process of getting everyone a 20' Mac Intel which I have two of at home so we can run our mac programs and pc programs on the same machine..