“‘Where’s the beef?’ That’s the idiom that jumps to mind as I work my way through Galen Gruman’s ‘The 7 best features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.’ I knew the features list would be lean — Apple has deliberately undersold Snow Leopard by pitching it as a relatively minor release — but please! Gruman’s article reads like a laundry list of borrowed features and derivative works. It’s as if someone at Apple grabbed a copy of the Windows 7 beta and simply Xeroxed the release notes,” Randall C. Kennedy writes for InfoWorld.
Kennedy writes, “For example: 64-bitness: Yippee! Apple finally goes 64-bit — BFD! As a Windows user, I’ve been livin’ la vida 64-bit for more than three years. Vista was the first mainstream desktop OS to deliver a viable 64-bit experience, and Windows 7 has taken this migration further by making it the preferred flavor for business users.”
MacDailyNews Take: Starting out with 64-bit was a good call; Kennedy’s already on a roll! LOL!
Kennedy continues, “QuickTime Pro: Can you believe the Apple folks used to charge for this thing? I guess they saw the writing on the wall, what with Microsoft releasing yet another excellent iteration of its free Movie Maker application. Way to play that reactionary card, Apple!”
MacDailyNews Take: Still, we can hardly wait to “catch up” to Microsoft’s Windows Movie Maker with, of all things, QuickTime X! 
“Mac OS X Snow Leopard is truly an underwhelming release, one that borrows most of its ‘new’ ideas from Windows Vista,” Kennedy writes. “Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to drive OS evolution forward, introducing a raft of truly innovative features with Windows 7.”
Kennedy offers many more examples in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: A fun bit of satire. Thanks, Randall!
Speechless…
It’s 30 Bucks… Deal with it!
Ummm… Really?
I can’t tell if this guy is for real or not.
I don’t know about beef, but we sure know where to find the bull. Was this article originally printed in the Onion?
He sounds like Zune Tang :-{)
Damn! I just ordered Snow Leopard. I wonder it it’s too late to cancel my order, sell my Macs, and blunder into Best Buy for a cheap PC?
Is Randall C. Kennedy’s face just a cheap knockoff of my ass?
(holy cow, my MW was face!)
Does this schmuck use computers ??
All 64 bit varients of windows are Not truely 64 bit, leopard was more 64bit than windows 64, and snow leopard is the only os that will be truely 64bit from bottom to top, not to mentian 64bit windows doesn have driver support for everything, and has tins of software and webapp compatibility issues , snow leopard will just work, and it’s 100% 64bit from bottom to top, or and windows is basically unusable, we are still forced to keep a crap box around for testing here, and we don’t allow it on the Internet, trust issues, it’s like a rebelious teenager with bad friends, u gotta keep it grounded, windows needs to be rewritten from the ground up, that will never happen, they are way too afraid, not to mention out of money, ms is near death, and all the poor idiots with contracts with them are going to be in for a rude awakanig, sell sell sell your ms stock before it’s too late, all they have left is office , and they can’t even sellthat in the us anymore, so u tell me what’s going o happen, if apple can release. $599 notebook it will truely be over
Yes, Snow Leopard it is ridiculous! Has anybody ever heard of a newer OS using a smaller footprint and boot/shutdown faster? Windows? Linux? There must have been a ton of garbage in OS X before.
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When the head of Qualcom said that people are tired of even laptops because they don’t want to take 15 minutes just to open up email, he IS talking about Windows.
All Apple has to do to mess with these nut jobs is to offer a free trial of OS X Snow Leopard to Windows users that would work on their PCs for about 60 days then cease. After folks could compare, they would switch.
I’m having a really hard time figuring out if this is a real article. He’s comparing Movie maker to Quicktime?
He talks about 64 bit on windows but fails to mention you have to pay an extra $100.
No Mention of full native Exchange support, NO mention of Open CL, NO mention of Grand Central Dispatch, NO mention the $30 price point.
DOES mention how Microsoft has Thumbnail preview and apple has Expose… I’m not sure how they compare?
This is a really bad article with NO direct comparison with Windows 7 and Snow Leopard.
You should look at the comments to the original article… So far, 39 of them, all like they came straight from MDN!
I have a strong feeling this guy was doing a Dvorak* on his unsuspecting audiences!
* to do a Dvorak — to write an article that will irritate a large constituency in order to drive up page views; most specifically, to irritate Mac users by writing an anti-Apple text.
Windows 7 is a cheap 10.3 knock off!
Kennedy isn’t the only one confused about “QuickTime.” Read some of the Infoworld comments. QuickTime and QuickTime Player are two different things. QuickTime Player, iMovie, FCP and many other applications rely on QuickTime. Ever heard of MPEG4? Know what it was modeled after?
Is this really a satire or is there truth to the article. I am so unfamiliar with the Windows world I don’t know. Could someone enlighten me. By no means am I looking for a reason to switch to Windows.
he, indeed, does sound like zune tang.
Randell’s crack dealer must have sold him some extra potent shit last night because this man is hallucinating.
How much did MS pay for that review?
I figured I’d let Bing tell me so I typed in “best computer operating system.”
Top hit – New Mac OSX Snow Leopard
Well, Mr. Kennedy *is* shackled to the Windows mindset. Everything gets refracted through the myopic lens of Windows-centrism.
Think of it this way – the guy is accustomed to eating Windows cowpies. He’s gotten so he can stomach it, and figures that’s what everything must taste like. So when he sees a magnificent Apple-made French Silk Chocolate pie, and people praising it to high heaven, he has no idea what they’re going on about.
He’s not going to actually give it a taste himself, good heavens no! He already “knows” it’s merely a fancy-looking version of the Windows cowpies he’s used to, so his commentary is based upon that false assumption.
This helps illustrate why Windows-centric commentators all think Mac users are silly or misguided or brainwashed. This also illustrates why these Windows-centric commentators look like complete idiots to those of us who actually know better than to eat cowpies.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaah this article was funny as hell.
this is even better for some good chuckles.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/windows/top-20-features-windows-7-347
you don’t have to watch the whole thing but just watch a bit and just laugh. oooo wordpad and paint!!!
Satire? That wasn’t satire. It was a bunch of cluelessness from a Windows user who actually believes his own bullshit. Read his other articles… he is wholly pro-Microsoft and anti everything else.
You fscking morons need to look up the word “satire” before posting your moronic “thoughts.”
MacDailyNews came straight out and told you it was a joke and most of you are so fscking stupid, you still fell for it.
This rock is infested with retards. It’s no wonder I’m so tired.
Zune Tang, now we know who you really are!
Wow talk about not doing your homework. How did this guy get a writing job. I am sure that there are some innovative things in Win 7 that Apple is behind, but make some real arguments. To tell outright lies shows how bad of a writer he is. Give some details. I have read better complaints about SL from Mac fanboys on this site.