“Last week, Microsoft released a test version of its ‘Upgrade Advisor’, a downloadable tool that aims to tell users how Vista-ready their system is,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News. “I decided to run it on all the systems I had at my disposal and found some interesting results.”
Fried reports, “Ironically, the machine that was in the best shape for Vista, at least according to the tool, was a loaned Apple Mac Mini with 1GB of memory. That system was Aero-ready, according to the tool, as long as I devoted more of the system’s modest hard drive over to the Windows partition. It needed 15GB of the drive to be free, and most of the free space was over on the Mac side of the house.”
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HHAHAHAHA
We triumph yet again!
Totally ridiculous.
My Boxx workstation with the 1500 GFX card and dual AMD procs runs Vista like PoopyDoody™ while a Mini gets the big nod?
Let the death of the Windows market begin!
Sounds about right…
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Me thinks that Steve has many future plans for our PC friends to pull them over to the bright side. We will have to wait and see but I would expect more from Apple regarding Windows apps etc etc than anything coming out of Redmond.
Vista indeed, Bahhh humbug!
No MDN take?? I guess when its that painfully obvious we don’t need one.
Now if it just had BOIS instead of EFI… Of course you could just run Parallels.
Admittedly I only skimmed the article, but to be fair, what machines was he comparing it to? Chances are the newer of any machines you chose to compare (unless we’re talking real budget) would be the most compatible.
That’s BIOS on your Mac mini instead of EFI.
Ok,I’ll be the first lemming and say the ‘advisor’ tells you to upgrade to OS X. There, a pc user has beaten you to it. LOL
Is this how Microsoft intends to take over the Mac platform.
Run some Microsoft program that says “Oh it’s a Mac, you need to partition 75% of your hard disk to Vista and 25% to Mac OS X.”
I think it was a very bad idea to allow Windows to run natively on our Mac’s.
People always assume that Windows will always be crappy and insecure. It was only like that for all this time because it served Microsoft to allow it to be that way. It created a vast IT services market that promoted Microsoft products.
Now that there is competition from Apple, they are shaping up their act. That’s why Microsoft is coming out with their own anti-malware, why Symantec is suing M$.
I think by allowing Mac’s to run Vista, it’s just a matter of time that Apple will turn inot a PC vendor.
You do not invite your competition to compete on your own machines.
Maybe Adobe is waiting to see Mac OS X on a PowerMacTel and what happens when Vista is released before commiting to developing a CS3 for MacTel.
We might have to boot into Vista to run CS3. That would be the begining of the end of Mac OS X.
What if you were a windows developer, and Apple somehow made it REAL easy to port over to a binary that EASILY compiled to both OS X *and* windows…something that rhymes with, oh, I don’t know, say “shepherd”
I wonder how that might effect things?
I checked the article:
The most recent PC they tested was a four month old Compaq desktop that had shared graphics.
I think this would compare with the release of the Mac mini. They weren’t using a year old PC.
Get this: The article said a MS rep said the “problem” was with the Upgrade Advisor, which is in beta. HaHa, that’s always the MS sides excuse, we released something, it sucks but don’t blame us it’s beta.
We are all in such great, fun times to be Mac users! Did anyone see the speed results for the Macbook running Final Cut Pro and Motion against tricked out Dual G5 workstations? Amazing, the lowly Macbook spanked the G5 in everything, and even beat the Macbook Pro in some tests. (yet Apple says not to use the little Book, prob becuase the want to upsell to the pro). So much for limitations of the graphics chipset!
http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=43717
I understand the Macbook sreams under windows as well. I’m sure it’s vista ready as well, for whatever thats worth.
“sreams” = screams =P
Vista ready?
It’s already running Microsoft Windows Vista 2011 Service Pack 9, also known as Mac OS X Tiger.
Let me add something to my previous post.
I think if Apple is comfortable with maintaining Mac OS X’s below 10% market share that it doesn’t really need to do anything. We all love it.
However if they are not happy with that, I think they will, and have, embraced Windows to sell more hardware.
It’s a dangerous game allowing M$ onto Apple hardware because eventually M$ will be calling the shots at Apple.
It seems to me that Apple is slowly but surely eroding Adobe’s, and other Pro competitors, software market share on the Mac. This is why we are seing reluctance. It is this, if nothing else, which implies a firm commitment to OS X.
I should imagine that over time Apple intends to see a gradual increase in Market share bringing all the Apps its codes along with it. By doing this there will be no opportunity for other companies to cry foul as Symantec are doing over M$ at the moment, because Apple will have been making them since the days of 5% market share.
If Adobe only release CS 3 for Vista then Apple will (have no choice but to) release their own suite to replace it, something I am sure they are capable of doing.
Tim Coughlin
“Totally ridiculous.
My Boxx workstation with the 1500 GFX card and dual AMD procs runs Vista like PoopyDoody™ while a Mini gets the big nod?”
He was just conveying what ‘Upgrade Advisor’ told him. Sounded pretty unbiased to me.
Tim, Adobe knows full well Apple could put out a Photoshop killer if it so desired. That’s why it is committed to Creative Suite for Mac indefinitely.
As for those who think Boot Camp means the end of OS X, it is nothing more than an accessory for the few who need to run Windows apps, or the Mac-curious too scared to make the leap. Apple wouldn’t have offered the option if it wasn’t confident it had the superior OS.
adobe are committed to the mac and they take 2 years to release a universal binary of photoshop?
thats bs man and you know it.
adobe are not committed and apple should and will in the long term extend their pro software range to eat away at macromedia..huh hmmm adobes market.
15GB?! Sounds like vista is a rediculous bloated mess. OS X takes up what?….4GB? I can’t even imagine the benefit of an OS taking up that kind of space. Is it BIOS or sloppy coding, or a combination of the two?
Now why would Adobe commit exclusively to Windows when that would all but tie them directly to the coat tails of a competitor who would like nothing better than reduce it to an also ran in the software business and indeed is trying already to reduce its influence in the Windows universe? It bought Macromedia precisely to try to resist that. Producing for multiple platforms may be a bit more expensive but at least it helps ensure your very existence no matter how far they go to play that down.
‘We might have to boot into Vista to run CS3. That would be the begining of the end of Mac OS X.’
Some might argue that this would be the beginning of the end of Adobe.
Me included..
too TOO funny