Ron Schenone

Snow Leopard – Are We Sure That Microsoft Didn’t Produce This? LOL

Posted by on Aug 28, 2009 | 7 Comments

Surfing around the internet looking for reviews about Apple’s new operating system Snow Leopard has been a real eye opener. Apple seems to have taken a page from the Microsoft manual for pissing off folks by providing an upgrade that is full of bugs and incompatibilities. Even people who generally are Apple fanboys and who write glowing reviews about anything that Apple produces are having issues with the OS. I love it! LOL

Fudzilla says this:

Yep you got it, the “best new features” on Snow Leopard are those that Windows users have enjoyed for years. You can tell the reviewer has never used a PC because he thinks these are a pretty neat idea. AP said that web browsing and image and document previews should be “noticeably faster” because more of the software now processes data in 64-bit chunks. We notice that they failed to provide benchmarks for this but say that once developers start writing applications in 64-bit they will be faster too. Again they say this because Apple told them so. In fact 64-bit does not speed up things that much.

Another thing that has turned up in the reviews is a somewhat nasty trick that Apple has played on its users. In all the marketing it has said that Tiger users will have to pay the full price of $140 to upgrade their machines.

Now it turns out that if you stick a Snow Leopard upgrade into a Tiger machine it will upgrade. However you have to face the guilt of not paying huge amounts of unnecessary cash to Apple. Most Apple fanboys are happy to write a cheque for what ever Steve Jobs tells them too.

If you replaced the name Apple with the name Microsoft these two companies would appear to be clones! LOL

Venture beat has an article in which the likes of Engadget, NY Times, Wired, Lifehacker and others are all reporting issues with the new OS. This just confirms my earlier suspicions that the Apple systems are no better than a PC, no matter what Steve Jobs says.

But it gets better. If you take a look at Snow Leopard it does look a lot like Windows 7. Meow.

Comments welcome.

Fudzilla source

VentureBeat source

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  • Ryan Farmer

    OS X isn’t even a real X86-64 operating system.

    If you want to go by how much the OS and the programs for it depend on 32-bit x86 software, consider that everything on a Linux distribution is 64-bit and there is no 32-bit software by default.

    If you want 32-bit compatibility, which is only really useful for running 2-3 proprietary games or Windows software in Wine, the 32-bit compatibility libraries are only about 100 megs installed.

    Windows 64-bit migration is a train wreck.

    Everything you didn’t even want ONE copy of has two versions installed including Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and even the Explorer shell. (XP x64 only has 32-bit Windows Media Player).

    Microsoft has gone through the system tacking in so much unrelated crap over the years that everything down to their web browser has to come in 32-bit and 64-bit editions. It’s a mess, and it adds over 800 megs of cruft to Vista and 7.

    But then you get to Apple which doesn’t even always load the 64-bit kernel in Snow Leopard, then of course you get the duplication of a lot of libraries that have to be there or else software natively compiled for either one won’t work, but it’s a moot point anyway because Apple only uses the 64-bit kernel if you have more RAM than the 32-bit one can handle.

    This is what’s wrong with proprietary operating systems. Linux can shed its skin whenever something becomes outdated and largely fluff, while Windows and OS X developers have to target the lowest common denominator.

    32-bit Windows XP users with DirectX 9 currently have more than two-thirds of the Windows usage share, so that’s what developers will tend to target.

    At least you *can* develop exclusively for Win64, Apple can’t even give you that. I think this could be an extension of Linux Torvalds’ comment once that in some ways the Mac was actually scarier than Windows from a programmers point of view.

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Thanks Ryan.

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  • jdilla

    I like your comment about how Snow Leopard looks alot like Windows 7. Thats funny, when did you say they were releasing that OS again??? Oh wait, OS X 10.6 is already out, imagine that! Have we somehow forgotten the Vista debacle?? You know, the total wannabe and oh so obvious hack job of OSX (that was so pathetic that it warranted the development of Windows 7 in the first place). I’m sure that Windows 7 will provide the same “satisfying” (ha ha) end user experience that the rest of the non IT world has come to expect from Microsoft. Nice try Micro-brain but no dice. Get a life…… then get a Mac! and not necessarily in that order. BTW, how long how you been employed by Microsoft ??????????? Hope you enjoy constantly updated your various security suites. Enjoy your crap box.
    Peace out spin doctor……

  • Julian Pereira

    This article or so…. I wouldn’t trust any of these reviews. I’ve used Snow Leopard, Leopard and Windows 7.
    So far, Windows 7 has been OK.
    Compatibility issues are so common with new OS’s. Any arena will face the problem… including Windows, Mac and Linux.
    Users who went from Windows Xp to Vista were faced with the most horrific issues in terms of compatibility…
    We forget those and just jump on Apple’s case when they have a tiny issue. How about the fact that a PC running Windows 7 can’t even access a shared drive that is on a macine running XP? Anyone mentioned that in their reports? I faced the problem.
    This just seems to be more like a bunch of foxes shouting ‘Sour grapes” every time their machines don’t work as well as Macs.