Well I’ve been using leopard for quite a while now on my macbook pro and I’ve  been using vista home premium basically ever since it first came out, as I go to different tech blogs and sites I see many people compare the two operating systems and which one is better but honestly there is no better operating system in my opinion it’s just what the user prefers. This is a post on how I feel about both systems.

Vista: I’m sure you’re seen my moaning posts about how bad this OS is and how it can be improved on many things which I guess it has been improved with something’s with the service pack 1 update, for the past year thought vista has been my main operating system and I am still happy to continue to use it as my main OS. I don’t have the money to upgrade and buy a Mac pro and yeah I know there are ways of getting leopard to run on non Mac machines but I’d prefer sticking to vista for now. I’m not going to go into too much detail on this as I have ranted on and on about vista so I don’t need to go into more ranting, you can read my other posts for that.

Leopard: I don’t use this as much as I use windows but it’s a great and very simple OS to use, there are some things that I think could be improved on it but there are a lot of things on this OS that are still better than Vista. I can’t really describe how simple this OS is, so user friendly and fast to get used to as soon as you open it up and boot into it. There are some things that are a bit complicated but that’s going into techy stuff, also I have found that there are so many more useful open source apps you can get for leopard.

On vista a lot of the things I own came with a price tag but with leopard almost everything was free as it was open source, things such as burn, cam twist, Mac saber (which is just for pure fun) and so much more, not to mention the automator which comes in very handy at times. Another great thing about leopard is just being able to zoom into the desktop with just a few button pressing and in windows you can’t which can be annoying at times. The list of programs out there for the Mac is just getting bigger and bigger because more people prefer using it for example I wanted a screen recording program for windows and I have still yet to find a good one but with a Mac I just done one simple search and I came across screenium which is brilliant and cheap!

I know I should probably do this myself but I recommend going to leopard without a doubt!! It’s simple, fun, great to use and has a lot of features for you to take advantage of. If you’re a gamer then you probably know not to switch to leopard as it’s not a gaming OS unless you use something like VMware fusion to have a virtual windows machine.

Any questions then feel free to e-mail me

E-mail:  ss3luke at googlemail.com