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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

MIT Technology Review: Uninspiring Vista

"Playing with OS X Tiger in order to make accurate comparisons for this review, I had a personal epiphany: Windows is complicated. Macs are simple."


Here’s a terrific review of Windows Vista:

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/17992/page1/

And my deepest-seated reasons for preferring Windows PCs--more computing power for the money and greater software availability--have evaporated in the last year. Apple's decision to use the same Intel chips found in Windows machines has changed everything. Users can now run OS X and Windows on the same computer; with third-party software such as Parallels Desktop, you don't even need to reboot to switch back and forth.

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