“It’s time for my annual fall computer buyer’s guide, and this year my message is a little unusual. If you’re thinking of acquiring or giving a new Windows desktop or laptop computer this holiday season, don’t do it. I suggest that, if at all possible, you wait around 90 days and get that new Windows machine in February,” Walter S. Mossberg writes for The Wall Street journal.
“Of course, you can upgrade most new Windows XP computers you buy now to Windows Vista after January,” Mossberg writes. “The catch is that upgrading PCs to major new operating system releases can be a tricky business. Often, it works just fine, but in many cases there are significant problems. It’s always better to buy a new PC that has been matched at the factory with the latest operating system. Waiting just another 90 days could save you a lot of upgrading aggravation.”
Mossberg writes, “What if you want an Apple Macintosh instead? Should you wait? After all, Apple is also planning an all-new version of its operating system, to be called Leopard, in 2007. I don’t advise Mac shoppers to wait, for several reasons. First, Leopard isn’t due until spring of 2007, months after Vista. Second, Leopard won’t be as disruptive an upgrade as Vista because it is the fifth major revision of Apple’s operating system since 2001, not the first. Third, because Apple makes both the hardware and software, Mac operating system upgrades tend to be relatively easy.”
“The current Mac operating system, called Tiger, already contains most of the key features promised for Windows Vista. I still regard the Apple iMac as the best consumer desktop computer on the market,” Mossberg writes.
Full article here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Mossberg offers advice on switching from Windows to Mac – October 05, 2006
Mossberg: Apple’s new MacBook surprisingly inexpensive, offers vastly superior Mac OS X – June 08, 2006
Mossberg: ‘Every mainstream consumer doing typical tasks should consider Apple Mac’ – April 13, 2006
Mossberg: Apple’s MacBook Pro gives users a ‘much better OS with vastly better built-in software’ – March 02, 2006
So what? Explain to a person that they’ve been using crap for the largest part of their binary life – it’s not like they’re going to be like “gee, thanks for letting me know”.
Let’s sing a nice hymn for Pastor Mossberg.
Apple makes the best computers and OS on the market, bar none.
Mossberg, telling it like it is, always.
Pastor Mossberg, eh?
Listen up, Sparky. Tiger gives me the ability to run Unix underneath an elegant, efficient, and intuitive GUI. Why would I want to cripple myself by using a bloated mishmash of patches and obsolete code that tries to make an operating system designed for PC XTs viable 30 years later? Ditch the leisure suit and disco boots and join us here in the future.
Talk about damning with faint praise! Such praise for the Macintosh buried deep inside an article on how to make Windows Hasta la Vista, Baby work kinda better on the crappo Dell you’re gonna buy for Xmas ’cause YOU’RE STUPID-WAIT ‘TIL FEBRUARY. IDIOT! is a little like saying the United States is really a wonderful place to live in the middle of a long skree on how to make extremist Taliban Islam a more family-friendly religion to follow. EESH!
Nobody sees what I see with my spiritual eye. I am the coo-coo-ka-choo Walrus. I am the Prophet! See life through my Windows! Give peas a chance!
It seems that every thread here eventually wanders off into the grenade range known as “politics”. Why don’t y’all get a blog?
for some reason people love posting in public threads as if they are blogs. IDIOTS!
Who’s in charge over at MafiaSoft? What a fsking mess!
Y’all misread the post, boiz, and missed my point.
No politico skree here. Just good ol’ American sarcasm.
Tsk, tsk tsk.
“for some reason people love posting in public threads as if they are blogs. IDIOTS!”
cynic821-maybe you should consider the name sarcastic821.
oh, and death to Windows.
Mossber follows the well established cross platform tradition. It takes 4x the info to work with M$.
“Mossberg, telling it like it is, always.”
Mossberg. Still cashing checks from Steve.
Gallery, still cashing checks from Gates?
The WSJ has some rather stringent ethics policies on that subject. Since you are not published there, you do not have to comply.
“The WSJ has some rather stringent ethics policies on that subject. Since you are not published there, you do not have to comply.”
That’s good to know. But just because WSJ has a Policy doesn’t mean Mossberg can’t be taking backhanders. I mean you’re hardly likely to go to your bosses and tell them you’re taking bribes to write nice sories about Apple are you?
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That’s good to know. But just because WSJ has a Policy doesn’t mean Mossberg can’t be taking backhanders. I mean you’re hardly likely to go to your bosses and tell them you’re taking bribes to write nice sories about Apple are you?
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Is it at all possible that Mossberg prefers the easier to use hardware, more secure OS and better consumer apps that comes with the Mac. Apple does not have the astroturfing history that M$ does. If Mossburg were caught taking money, he would lose his job and a great deal of creditability. The backwards compatability of the M$ world is showing its age.
“he would lose his job and a great deal of creditability. “
I wasn’t aware that he had much now when it comes to issues of Mac vs. PC. I guess the key is not to get caught.