One of the great features of OS X Leopard is screen sharing.
Once you use it to administer a few machines on your network, you will wonder how you ever managed without it. Unlike MS RDC, Screen Sharing is free and fast. It uses Quartz to scale the content on the remote computer to fit within your window. Just lovely.
Don’t be fooled by the ‘new user interface.’ Windows 7 is little more than a housekeeping project for Vista. By my accounting MS owes a couple of hundred million consumers the performance they paid for when they bought Vista PCs. I doubt Vista will ever perform as it should (quick, efficient and non-obtrusive). It suck to be you if you paid for it – especially if you bought the Ultimate Edition that never got the perks and enhancement that MS promised (what, no lawsuit?).
I find it odd that such a polished Beta was available this soon after Vista’s launch. Clearly this has been in the pipeline a long time. That leads me to believe that MS knew they were releasing a dog when Vista shipped.
It’s been a full court press to get Windows 7 this far so fast, or its just a small update to the Vista code base. Read the rest of this entry »
After experimenting with OS X 10.5 on an inexpensive notebook, I have come to the following conclusions:
Given how well a $350 notebook runs OS X I can understand Apple’s reluctance to license the OS. It would kill sales of their products because not only can today’s bargain machine run OS X nicely, ones from a couple of years ago can too.
Also, competition from MS for OEM operating system sales would drive the license fees down. Neither company wants a race to zero.
I will say this though, OS X 10.5 is the best $130 a PC user can spend.
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