Tag Archives: Mac OS X

Window to better performance

Windows 7 is Microsoft’s latest instalment of their operating system. The review copy I have is the Release to Manufacturing version which will go into CDs for sale. This new release comes about three years after Windows Vista was launched and is expected to arrest all the issues associated with Vista such as its lacklustre performance [...]
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A new animal for SGD48

Installing the latest Snow Leopard operating system is like turbo-charging an ageing car with just a simple oil change. The process could not be simpler but more on that later. First, let me clarify the test parameters. As the OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard is designed to be a step-up, I put it to the test [...]
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Snow Leopard versus Windows 7

For computer observers, it is an exciting period for operating systems. With the launch of Snow Leopard, Apple’s latest incarnation of its Mac OS X last Friday and Microsoft’s Windows 7 (rumoured to be released on Oct 22), there is bound to be a head-to-head comparison between the two. Snow Leopard has little to show in [...]
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A Smoother Experience of Snow Leopard

This year, though, Apple and Microsoft realized that the pile-on-features model is unsustainable. Both are releasing new versions of their OS that are unapologetically billed as cleaned-up, slimmed-down versions of what came before. Microsoft’s called Windows 7, will come out this October. Apple’s, called Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, arrives today, a month earlier than [...]
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