Which, I haven't seen demo'd yet.

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Leopard wasn't a service pack like many asserted (it actually added features), but this is since it adds nothing.

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And if you'll notice, they're only charging $29 for the upgrade. Which last I knew was far better than ANYTHING Microsoft had put forth, and considering how bad VISTA is, they had really better cut their customers a huge financial break.

I don't consider major system re-writes to be just a service pack. I consider a service pack to be a roll-up of existing system patches already to market, plus a few new ones. Apple just released 10.5.7 recently which was some 450 megs?

Not to mention, the new OS takes up 6 gigs less space than than 10.5 does. Something Neither Vista or Windows 7 can claim.

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If MS released a package similar to SL it would be free. The major rewrite you are talking about is something that they had promised to devs forever ago. WTF do you think cocoa was for... Jesus wake up

The OS takes up 6gb less because they killed PPC support AND SP2 for Vista did clean up space.

What's the point in even responding... Go drink some more kool aid fanboi.

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If Vista ran "Just fine" then Microsoft wouldn't have had to spend $300 million on a marketing campaign to rebrand Vista as Mojave.

XP is a superior OS to Vista. Period. I'm not "drinking the kooliad". As for how they recovered 6 gig of OS space, if you'd actually bothered to do your homework you'd know why it's smaller. They even said so during the keynote yesterday. If you think Cocoa and PPC support was 6 gig worth of code, you're insane.

Let's take a look at Vista objectively compared to XP. The same applications run slower, and use more memory running under Vista than XP. There were lawsuits filed against Microsoft over its Vista Ready program.

When installing a program that requires administrative access to do so, it will prompt you to cancel your install and re-start it as administrator. OSX simply pops up a prompt and asks you to type in your password. XP doesn't even bother you with this at all. I really liked XP as an OS. It was far superior to 2000 Pro.

But, no, I don't "Fail" the moment I talk about how bad Vista runs. Only pathetic wannabes throw out words like "fail" and "Kool-aid" when trying to make a point. Which, in you're case you haven't made any point.

As for SP2 for Vista cleaning up space... No, not really. It merely cleans up archived versions of files it replaces. Overall it uses about an additional 1 gig of drive space after installation.

But, what the hell do I know? Obviously I'm just a "failed" fanboi drinking the "kool-aid" because I can appreciate that OSX is a good OS, and definitely a superior one to Vista. Windows 7? Not so much, and I can't say that I will consider Snow Leopard better than Windows 7. Right now it is likely I won't.

Sorry, I don't worship at the altar of Microsoft. When they release a shitty product, I call them on it. Same goes for Apple, or even crummy Linux distributions.

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I'm jealous because you have Malware, Bloatware and SOooooo many more viruses than I do. And if your not tech savvy, you have to pay someone to keep your puter up to speed and your hard drive clean and your *OS functional.

Yawn.

* Oh Shit!

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But then again why should you believe me... I'm not on an Apple commercial.

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But the YES and OK windows take so much time and interrupt the flow of your computing, so while their intentions may be good, the fact that they need to exist is not good and assumes you don't know what's up.

Also your last line about Mac users believing every Apple commercial undermines whatever you say by generalizing an entire group of users. Nice going. Who were you trying to convince that Windows users are intelligent? Current Windows users? Way to alienate the group you should be trying to convince.

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