“I’m going to try to be equitable here, because no one needs to read another anti-Vista rant or Apple-is-God paean. Windows does some things very well; it’s Previous Versions feature in Vista, for example, has rescued a number of my precious documents from user-induced oblivion. That said, it’s hard to be totally even-handed when Leopard (aka Mac OS 10.5) so handily outshines any other computing interface heretofore created by human beings,” Chris Dannen blogs for Fast Company.
“I’ve been using Leopard for only a few days, and it’s already changed the way I understand the limits of a personal computer,” Dannen writes.
“Leopard’s salient improvements will trickle down to the next version of Windows, as well as the next round of cell phones, public computing systems, and handhelds. As more companies look to Apple for copycat material, more of what makes the Mac OS great will improve computing on the whole. Apple may have only 6% market share, but it’s safe to bet that whether or not you intend to, you’ll eventually be loving something about Leopard. So save yourself some time, give in, and try it now,” Dannen writes.
Full article here.
Do it. Try it now!
I want but i have a massive paper due monday…
Monday will be pick up of pre-order, install, and boot up the new hard drive day.
MDN word…. “press” i’m pressed for time
” . . . because no one needs to read another anti-Vista rant or Apple-is-God paean.”
“No one” is an absolute. Does “everyone” agree? <smirk>
why are you posting or even reading this when you have a paper due? Go do your work and then play.
P.S. But it’s a good review. Kudos.
“As more companies look to Apple for copycat material, more of what makes the Mac OS great will improve computing on the whole.”
True. But it’s also a sad statement of the lack of creativity elsewhere. Turtle Boy and his Grunting Sweaty Ogre sidekick have no taste. Evidence keeps coming to the Surface.
Just give in. Your women and children are all ours! The sheep should be scared, too.
“The sheep should be scared, too.”
Ewe wooled say that. That’s shear lunacy! Shorn ’nuff?
Ah yes, springtime in the Rockies, where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.
Beryllium: Don’t forget the nervous major league baseball managers.
@Beryllium….
That’s just Colorado. Now Wyoming…that’s where true men live. Where the men are men and the women are men and the sheep run scared.
Geez, why do they keep hitting that single digit market share everytime? How about saying “despite Apple 6% market share, who’s growth has been impeded by Microsoft continued abused of its Monopolistic ways”… There doesn’t that sound better?
Hats off to an original, clever, and correct piece of writing !!
Not often we see any original thought processes…
Would this be the same Fast Company whose Jan 2004 cover story was titled “f He’s So Smart…Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation”?
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/78/jobs.html
All your base are belong to us!
Instead of the Borg quote associated with M$, “Resistance is futile!”, I’d like to quote something else for those stuck in the PC world.
“Come on in! The water’s fine!”
@Beryllium, Darkness
And in Gillette, Wyoming, where the sheep are scared and there’s a woman behind every tree.
(looks around… looks again… and sees nothing but featureless, scrubby hills. Not a tree in sight.)
The sad thing is this is all not true.
There’s nothing life changing in Leopard, and it does many things worse than Vista.
When you use Leopard, the feeling is that its a slight update on a very dated Mac OS.
Wow. A review that really nails it:
&nsbp; Apple implements (or invents), adapts, and adds value;
&nsbp; M$ buys (or steals) and shoehorns “too little, too late.”
What else to say?
@DARKNESS
I can’t imagine what the first words you ever heard from your first girlfriend’s mother when she caught you out behind the barn all guilty. Was it moooo or baah?
Turtle Boy and his Grunting Sweaty Ogre.
Thats FUNNY.