While sifting through my sea of NetNewsWire feeds, I couldn’t help but see this story on PC World on 15 reasons to switch to Vista. After reading through it, I couldn’t help but think that OS X has all of those features, and more! So, following the same reasons as the PC World story, here’s 15 reasons why you should switch to OS X and not Vista:
1. It’s the Interface, Stupid
Exactly. Instead of going to an operating system that copies the OS X feel, how about actually going to OS X? Duh!
2. Flip Over Windows Flip 3D
I tried out Flip 3D, and found it tedious to sift through the windows to get what I want. Plus, it’s not available on the Home Basic version of Vista, and requires an Aero-compatible graphics card. Exposé allows me to see all of my open windows in an application or all programs at once, and it works with any graphics card that can handle OS X.
3. Live Thumbnails
Exposé also shows live Windows.
4. Boost Performance With ReadyBoost
While OS X doesn’t have a ReadyBoost (a feature in Vista that allows you to run frequently used applications off of the system RAM or an external USB flash drive)equivalent, it does have less what-the-heck-are-those processes running in the background, resulting in greater system speed.
5. Cool Performance Tools
Activity Monitor already has all of the system monitoring tools you need built-in to OS X, complete with graphs, logs, and a Control-Alt-Delete-like list of currently running processes.
6. Better Security
While OS X has a great firewall built-in, one of the best things is you probably won’t even need it, as there are very few viruses that run on OS X anyway. Plus, the new version of Safari included with Leopard will have anti-phishing tools built-in.
7. Find Anything Fast With Search
Spotlight can search your entire system or a particular folder or drive from anywhere in OS X with live-search capabilities. Plus, Spotlight in Leopard will support Boolean operators.
8. Nifty Software Gadgets
Dashboard has literally tons of widgets ranging from system diagnostics to the weather to Tetris. And, Dashboard in Leopard will support Web Clip, which allows web pages from Safari to instantly be turned into live-updating Dashboard widgets.
9. Better Wireless Networking
OS X already has great wireless networking capabilities, including features like multiple network profiles.
10. Map Your Network
While OS X doesn’t actually have a visual network map, it does have Bonjour, which finds other Bonjour-enabled Macs automatically and identifies them by simple names, without the need for IP addresses.
11. Better Graphics With Windows Photo Gallery
How long has iPhoto been around? Included with new Macs, iPhoto is a very powerful photo organizer, basic photo editor, and more.
12. Become a Director With Windows Movie Maker
iMovie and iDVD form a killer-combo for movie editing and production, with loads of features perfect for any amateur. Plus, all of the iLife apps integrate together in a way that Windows programs never could.
13. Better Notebook Support
OS X already has great notebook support, complete with Energy Saver, wireless settings, and more, all easily-accessible from System Preferences.
14. File Sharing and Syncing
OS X has tons of sharing features accessible from the Sharing pane of System Preferences, and Bonjour makes connecting to other Macs (and PCs, for that matter) on a local network a breeze.
15. Protect Your Kids With Parental Controls
Tiger has great parental controls built-in already, and Leopard will have even more features.
While Vista may have some cool features, Tiger, which is already released, has many of them right now. And, even better ones will come along with the release of Leopard. So, if you’re an XP user thinking of upgrading to Vista, take a look at OS X first.
Vista is really just a copy of OS X Tiger anyways.
Mac OS X has a great interface for wireless, however I'm not entirely convinced of its power. I can connect to networks under Boot Camp that I couldn't with OS X, and performance is generally better. I'm not sure why this is, but I recall a few times where OS X would simply not connect to the internet when I needed it to.
"literally tons of widgets"? My widgets to seem that heavy...
"Vista is really just a copy of OS X Tiger anyways."
Actually, that's not true:
Vista is a copy of OS X Panther.
While you guys are making such fun out of such a comparison, do you ever look from the point from Windows and appreciate what it is great in Vista? I am not a fan in any while I have both systems, I like Mac OS X working environment and I like Windows robust and fast interface too. Furthermore, more applications support Windows than Mac, which probably makes Windows more popular. I am just curious why many of you like to put up so much discussion and hatred over one another. :)
Props to Philippe for his comment, as I am currently running Panther, and don't feel I'm missing too many features listed above.
Also, I agree with Jeremy, as there are times my iBook just won't connect to networks that I see my PC-using colleagues using without issue.
One more thing. After hitting up the link, this quote caught my eye:
If you've ever had Mac envy, this is the Windows you want--it's the most Mac-like interface yet.
So its settled. Vista like Mac, BUT Mac > Vista.
Something else that I'd note is that Vista seems to suffer from an incredible level of interface bloat such that it's nigh on unusable under Parallels whereas XP runs at a damned good speed. I don't know what the heck they have done but I didn't keep Vista (RC2) installed for very long since it was very sluggish to run and took ages to start up.
My other pet whinge with Vista is that Flip 3D thing. You can understand what the objective of it was but the implementation was bodged to the point that it's easier to use the existing tools like Alt-Tab. Expose does a better job, as far as I am concerned, of solving the problem but in fairness once the number of windows open exceeds a certain threshold not even Expose can help much unless you like squinting at your screen. I still favour Command-Tab as my primary means of switching windows with a touch of Command-`.
Above all, the price of windows vista is very expensive.
Do you know the fact? which is say that korean version vista is the much expensive than English version vista.
Let me give an example
Vista business : Eng. : 269 $
Kor. : ~ 440 $
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Since i use Mac, in fact, this is independent of Me.~
I've had problems with networks in the past runnning Jaguar, but find Tiger much more compatible (I use a 867Mhz G4 12" PowerBook, which had been around a bit now).
As far as Vista goes, it does look very nice and mac like. I considered switching myself (Apple have slipped a bit lately, ilife06 was buggy when released, .mac stopped giving me virus protection, although I now find clamxav better than Virex) but ultimately I couldn't go back to frequent crashes and having mess about every time I plugged a device into my laptop.
Plus, as stated, Vista is a rip off of something Apple came up with ages ago. I've decided to wait for Leopard before upgrading to a Macbook Pro.
Vista ??? Who cares ??? I'm a Mac user.
"Better Wireless Networking"
What a laugh. Go smoke some more crack moron.....