Point being: Vote with your wallet and if you want to criticize Mossberg’s article, his site takes comments too. ;) I’m not sure if or how I came across as one of the “fanboys” you mention, but as I said in the post, I run both operating systems as needed.

Bottom line is that there’s a 20 year history of “Sure, the last version of Windows stunk, but THIS one will be better than a Mac”. After 20 years, you get tired of the same old junk.

It’s also interesting that Mossberg never says anything bad about anyone. For example, try this review of Vista when it first came out (before any of the service packs made it almost usable): “After months of testing Vista on multiple computers, new and old, I believe it is the best version of Windows that Microsoft has produced”

Gee- exactly the same words he used for Windows 7. That’s comforting, isn’t it?

Have YOU actually used Windows 7? Millions Users and reviewers have been running it since January, over 9 Months. Its not just a few elite rewiewers who are talking about how good the system is, but normal users.

I’ve been using it as My primary Operating system in a dual boot configuration since the beta (Over 6 Months) and its performance has been great. While it might be slightly slower (Less then 10%) on the same hardware, the improvements in usability and stability have been incredible.

Unless you are running Hardware intensive applications on older hardware, your not really going to notis a major slowdown compared to XP. And in many of those cases it is more of an issue of non optimized drivers and applications.

Running it in parallel with Snow Leopard over the past few weeks, its easy to see how both are mature systems, both having their strengths and weaknesses.

As a user of Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro, using Bootcamp with Windows 7, I can assure you that Windows 7 is a robust, modern and quick OS, as is OSX. We’d all be interested in some links to these ‘reports’ you’re quoting though.

Also, ‘usability’ is an interesting argument to make. I’ve never found anything I couldn’t do on either OS over the years, apart from the obvious gaming and app specific issues.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m excited at where we are today with the tech we have and the amazing OS’s and Apps we can choose from. Yet many people, like yourself, prefer the age old ‘everything else sucks’ mantra. There’s a brave new tech world out there, you should embrace it!

“a toss up” vs.

“more of a toss up”

means basically the same thing. Bear in mind that we have been running Windows 7 for a year now and are pretty sure you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for what you predict.

Mossberg stated that he gave Mac OS X the edge, but that it was “more of a toss up”. That’s not what your headline says.

Furthermore, Let’s wait and see.

I’ve been hearing for something like 20 years how the NEXT version of Windows was going to be just as good as the Mac – if not better. Then, when it comes out, it continues to suck (although, other than Vista, not usually quite as bad as the previous version). Heck, even back in Windows 3.0 days (which was one of the worst operating systems EVER foisted on mankind, the WIndows fanboys were claiming that it was just as good.

Let’s wait until let’s say 2 months after the release and watch how sucky it really is. For example, a number of published reports say that while it is slightly faster than Vista (heck, a drunken slug is faster than Vista), it is still far behind XP on real application performance.

Reviewers praised 3.1, 95, 97, ME, XP, 2000, Vista, and any others that I’ve missed – but users continued to realize that they were miles away from Macs in usability.

closest i have seen so far is a dual system motherboard, with a atom next to a core2.