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Windows 7 Pricing vs. Mac OS X: Why Even Go There?

Written on July 03, 2009 by Tom Reestman and 48 people have commented

Windows 7 pricing was made official not long ago, and the general consensus is that, despite a slight drop in Home Premium pricing compared to Vista, it’s too expensive.
Still, there are some in the Microsoft community that try to justify it by comparing it to Apple’s pricing for Mac OS X. Microsoft can never win [...]

Spy shots show OS X without the ‘Mac’; could clones return?

Written on June 05, 2008 by Nick Mediati and 56 people have commented

No run-up to Macworld Expo or WWDC is complete without the spy shots of the banners inside San Francisco’s  Moscone Center, and this time is no different. No making the rounds is a Flickr photoset of banners hung outside the keynote hall posted by Gernot Poetsch. One in particular is especially interesting. It shows two banners: one referring to [...]

Your Leopard Love Affair

Written on October 16, 2007 by Billy Halsey and 50 people have commented

Iyaz Akhtar wrote earlier about some of the new features in Leopard, set to debut in nine days. The full list spans over 300 new features — some of them niftier than others.
This is my first major OS X upgrade since I switched (back) to Mac, and it struck me as funny that a [...]

Living One Mac Generation Behind

Written on August 20, 2007 by Louis Gray and 55 people have commented

When entering college in 1995, I purchased my first computer that was all mine – a Performa 631CD, with screaming 33 MHz performance and a 68040LC processor. Sporting 8 MB of RAM and 500 MB of hard drive space, I was good to go. But unsurprisingly, I was immediately lapped, not just by the next [...]