OS X vs Vista
We find our protagonists standing toe-to-toe, fury burning in their eyes; the maiden having fainted in terror. Baron Vista's loss in the battle for security leads him to challenge Count OS X to hand-to-hand combat. Fists will fly, noses will be broken and locals will gawk in wonder as our heroes trade blows. Who is faster? Who is stronger? It isn't immediately obvious who has the performance advantage. Count OS X used to be rather unfit in days gone by, partly because of his fondness for the PowerPC processor. He's since cleaned up his act and adopted the healthier Intel processor favored by the Baron. This makes our combatants evenly matched. Will Count OS X prove to be more of a lover than a fighter? Would he rather compose a sonnet for the affections of the maiden than resort to fisticuffs? Or is Vista just a big ungainly blunderbuss who couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag? We like seeing people hurt themselves more than we like poetry--let's see what happens when they trade blows. Count OS X puts up a good fight, but is pummeled mercilessly. Dizzy with pain and barely able to see Baron Vista wooing an impressed maiden, the count ponders why he was beaten. Both have lightning fists and quick responses. We can find a winner even without resorting to talk of clock cycles and gigaflops. PCs are definitely the place to go if you want the latest technology. PCs were privileged to the first Intel Core and Core 2 Duo CPUs, they've had access to high-speed wireless 802.11n wireless for some time, not to mention high-capacity Blu-ray and HD DVD drives. OS X is no shrinking violet--it excels in disciplines like video encoding and image processing, and can help you render a 3D necklace of posies really quickly. Vista is arguably just as good at such floppish tasks, but has superior gaming abilities. Frag-happy mouse jockies are better off with a Windows PC because all the best graphics cards and games are released there before they're released for OS X. Vista looks set to extend its lead in this area even further with forthcoming DirectX 10 games. Baron Vista takes the win. Score: Mac OS X-1, Windows Vista-1 | ||||
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dstoti says...
I am a comfortable user of both platforms, having been entirely "Mac" or entirely "windows" at various times of my life. But, I must say, I can't entirely agree with this, humorous, albeit misdirected scenario. Misdirected you say? Yes, while one can't ignore the impact of the "market share" that Windows has, saying that it wins largely because there are more copies of it out there and therefore more software available is an artifact of a (possibly) bad decision made by Apple more than a decade ago. My controlling the makers of their hardware, the hardware was much better than the majority of boxes that people used to load Windows on, but they lost the market share war. Would you say that a Honda Accord is a better car than a BMW 750, because there are more of them on the road? I dare say that if the die had not been cast in the mid-nineties, and people were able to have equal access to software between the 2 systems, Mac would rule the roost, because all other things being equal, it is a better machine.
Feb 12, 2008 03:48
I am a comfortable user of both platforms, having been entirely "Mac" or entirely "windows" at various times of my life. But, I must say, I can't entirely agree with this, humorous, albeit misdirected scenario. Misdirected you say? Yes, while one can't ignore the impact of the "market share" that Windows has, saying that it wins largely because there are more copies of it out there and therefore more software available is an artifact of a (possibly) bad decision made by Apple more than a decade ago. My controlling the makers of their hardware, the hardware was much better than the majority of boxes that people used to load Windows on, but they lost the market share war. Would you say that a Honda Accord is a better car than a BMW 750, because there are more of them on the road? I dare say that if the die had not been cast in the mid-nineties, and people were able to have equal access to software between the 2 systems, Mac would rule the roost, because all other things being equal, it is a better machine.
Feb 12, 2008 03:48
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