Ouch!
In both the laptop and desktop showdowns, Apple’s computers were the winners. Oddly, the big difference didn’t come in our user ratings, where we expected the famously friendly Mac interface to shine. Our respondents liked the look and feel of both operating systems but had a slight preference toward OS X. In our speed trials, however, Leopard OS trounced Vista in all-important tasks such as boot-up, shutdown and program-launch times. We even tested Vista on the Macs using Apple’s platform-switching Boot Camp software—and found that both Apple computers ran Vista faster than our PCs did. (emphasis added)
Poor Bill. ...Cuz, y'know, if you need a fast machine to run Vista, you'll need to get a Mac; and if you get a Mac, then ya might as well run the Mac OS.
It's easy to beat fat, slow, overengineered Vista. But Vista has been rejected by the marketplace. Why didn't the testers try Leopard against Windows XP Pro, or even Windows 2000 Pro?
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto | Apr 18, 2008 at 16:15