Windows 7 making Mac OS X lose its lustre?
By Benny Har-Even in Editorial
Posted in Windows, Microsoft, Apple on
I have to admit that I’m mildly excited with the news that the release Windows 7 release candidate will be available on Friday. (I must stress mildly, I’m not that sad. Am I?)
FYI it will be available for Technet and MSDN subscribers sometime next week, while the great unwashed will have to wait until next week – 5 May. (Actually, that’s the wrong way round isn’t it – let’s face it, MSDN and Technet subscribers are far more likely to be unwashed – I’m not so sure about the great bit… anyway I digress).
As I was saying, the point it, that I’m actually going to bother do download and install it as soon as I can.(Hopefully it will install directly over older builds). You see I’m rather enamoured of Windows 7, and I’m running it, as many of the techie sorts are over the way at PC Pro, on my main machine.
Having given up the ghost on my official Windows XP powered Dennis Publishing laptop, on account of it being as slow as a very slow thing on a particular sluggish day in Slowland, I had the opportunity to use a MacBook Pro as my main work machine. Nice.
And for a good while I did, running Windows Vista inside Parallels, in order to get the best of both worlds. I did this you see, as I wanted m Mac grooviness (not enough people use the word groovy anymore I feel), but I also couldn’t give up on Outlook and Xobni, a powerful combination that I like a lot, especially considering Microsoft’s Outlook equivalent for Mac, Entourage is frankly, rubbish.
However, as Windows 7 beta wouldn’t run under Parallels on the Mac I had to install in on yet another machine – but since I’ve got it all going the MacBook Pro has stayed in the draw, which is a bit of a waste of a Macbook Pro if I’m thinking about it.
In fact, I’ve just come to the realisation that if I had to spend my own money I think I would actually prefer a Windows 7 machine over a Mac. As great as Mac OS X is, I don’t think it’s got any great draw over Windows – especially for a work machine. More specifically it’s also about the application – I like Office 2007 a lot more than Office 2008 for the Mac, which feels dates – and if I want to use Outlook and Xobni, then I might as well do it natively.
Thinking about it, on a Mac the best apps as far as I’m concerned are still iPhoto and iMovie – which means that for me, the ideal machines would be an iMac at home and a Windows 7 machine at work. And as for fun, well I guess it’s not a PC either these days – it’s a console.
So a PC for the boring stuff and a Mac for the creative stuff. It seems then that old clichés are still true.
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Loading ...Comment by - April 27, 2009 on 5:07 pm
FYI I’ve been running Build 7000 using vmware fusion successfully.
Comment by - April 28, 2009 on 7:17 am
PC for the boring stuff? You dont play games then Benny?
Comment by - April 28, 2009 on 8:37 am
To clarify, I was able to install Windows 7 build 7000 under Parallels but it appeared no networking components would work, which left it in splended isolation. I’m checking with Parallels to clarify Windows 7 support.
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