Flip3D... not great at all <<< Expose

[PeterCH]

So I checked a 1.66 C2D laptop at IC today.
It had Windoze Vista Home Premium or something installed.

First of all

Flip3D....
No big deal. Not as effective as Expose and not as useful.
But pretty much a would be rip off of Expose.
In fact it's a bit of a rip of off Front Row's
video playback feature, with the movies playing
back on the side.

Search
Ok it finds as it types. 3rd party apps had this for XP before
but now it's here. Of course it's only as good as Spotlight,
but Mac had Spotlight since when? 3 years ago?

Tried to find graphics card properties. Couldn't find them after
5 minutes of use, despite using XP heavily. Right Click gives
you an NVIDIA applet. It wasn't very useful.

So all in all, Mac OS X >>> Vista.

On these interface issues.

 

[C3 - Applecart]

Don't you mean Vista >>> Mac Os'X? Microsoft are the ones copying Apple...

 

[malec]

No I think he means Mac OS X >>> Vista

 

[LabAnimal]

PeterCH, just because you don't understand Vista doesnt mean there's something wrong with it!.

 

[bwana]

PeterCH, just because you don't understand Vista doesnt mean there's something wrong with it!.

I dont think it's a case of not understanding it - he simply doesnt like it.

 

[PeterCH]

I used all forms of Windows since 3.0.
I sort of learned to understand them all.
Then I tried Mac OSX. It was completely different from
Windows but intuitive enough so that I could use it
productively within minutes.
Now I tried Windoze Vista with it's Control Panel settings all muddled
up all over the place. WTH?

The easier the OS is to use, the better it is. People don't use computers
to play with buttons, effects and animations but to get work done, or
get play done (start a game, whatever).

In Vista I had more trouble then in Mac OSX. In fact despite running a previous iterations of Windows Vista (XP, 2000, ME, 98, NT, 95, 3.1x)
I found it easier to find settings for Mac (and other things) than
for Vista.

All in all I'm staying with XP on my current 2 PCs, my Mac obviously stays OSX. Vista sucks. Sorry but it does. I was one of those guys who was so excited about 95 and then 2000 and finally XP. Yes all of those were quite cool, and XP was the best, but Vista is just bloatware and eyecandy.
MacOSX has that eyecandy too, but it's more stylish and way more functional, Vista is just so kitsch.