Why Windows 7 is Inferior to Snow Leopard
Farhad Manjoo, at Slate gives a rave review to Windows 7, even proclaiming it superior to Apple's operating system, Snow Leopard. Mr. Manjoo conveniently omits the one feature where Windows fails dismally compared to Mac OS X - security and vulnerablity to malware.
This weekend, the Windows XP Pro partition on my MacBook Pro, which I maintain for another family member's use, got infected with a trojan that infected exe and dll files and couldn't be removed. I finally had to delete the Boot Camp partition and create a new one, reinstall Windows, various application programs and 54 Windows updates. Total time spent was about three hours.
I'll happily stick to OS X.
BTW, I actually considered upgrading the Windows partition from Windows XP to Windows 7, until I went to Amazon.com and saw that the cheapest version of Windows 7 cost's $199.95!
You can buy a MacBook for $999, and get a machine that outperforms my MacBook Pro, which cost $2,000 in 2007. And Apple includes the operating system disks, while many PCs that come with Windows preinstalled don't.
This weekend, the Windows XP Pro partition on my MacBook Pro, which I maintain for another family member's use, got infected with a trojan that infected exe and dll files and couldn't be removed. I finally had to delete the Boot Camp partition and create a new one, reinstall Windows, various application programs and 54 Windows updates. Total time spent was about three hours.
I'll happily stick to OS X.
BTW, I actually considered upgrading the Windows partition from Windows XP to Windows 7, until I went to Amazon.com and saw that the cheapest version of Windows 7 cost's $199.95!
You can buy a MacBook for $999, and get a machine that outperforms my MacBook Pro, which cost $2,000 in 2007. And Apple includes the operating system disks, while many PCs that come with Windows preinstalled don't.
posted by Peter L. Winkler | 11:56 AM
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