>>Until your new fancy Mac that comes with Snow Leopard is totally hosed right out of the box In what way? I'm wrniitg this from a Mac running Snow Leopard, and the upgrade could not be more smooth. And I got a few new features to what already was (for a consumer) a superior OS. Task based parallelism, working GPGPU API, a new, superior set of compilers (clang + llvm, read up on it), and it's faster, and it has Exchange support without having to buy Office. That's worth $30 IMO.I'm not putting down Win7 in any way. _For Microsoft_ it's a fine release and I'll buy a few copies (from the company store, obviously) for my PCs. But given a choice, I will always pick Mac OS X. In fact I have a Win 7 partition on my MBP. Haven't booted it in months. It probably has three dozen updates in the queue already.
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>>Until your new fancy Mac that comes with Snow Leopard is totally hosed right out of the box In what way? I'm wrniitg this from a Mac running Snow Leopard, and the upgrade could not be more smooth. And I got a few new features to what already was (for a consumer) a superior OS. Task based parallelism, working GPGPU API, a new, superior set of compilers (clang + llvm, read up on it), and it's faster, and it has Exchange support without having to buy Office. That's worth $30 IMO.I'm not putting down Win7 in any way. _For Microsoft_ it's a fine release and I'll buy a few copies (from the company store, obviously) for my PCs. But given a choice, I will always pick Mac OS X. In fact I have a Win 7 partition on my MBP. Haven't booted it in months. It probably has three dozen updates in the queue already.