Here's a 'switch': OS X to Vista

It's easy to find 'switcher' articles just about everywhere on the web these days. You know what I mean: long-time Windows users switch to Mac OS X. Yes, James and I each purchased MacBook Pros recently, but I wouldn't classify us as 'switchers' since we continue to primarily use Tablet PCs and UMPCs.

This article by Nik Cubrilovic puts a twist on the switch: Nik installed Boot Camp on his Mac hardware so he could run Windows Vista. After just 24 hours of use, he's convinced that Vista is a better choice for him and he outlines the reasons in this well written piece. In the end, an OS and the hardware it runs on has to work for you, so this isn't a 'political' piece, but it's interesting to see one of the few switchers flip over to Windows. Also worthy of mention is that Nik isn't seeing any performance issues with Vista; contrary to what we've heard many times and have recently discussed when looking at battery life. Twenty-four hours with a configured device isn't really enough time to get a thorough feel for performance, so let's see if Nik does any follow ups with empirical evaluations.

Comments

[Alan Pozner]

Not really a comment on Vista vs OSX but on Vista battery life.

I was scanning through PCConnection's online catalog and noted that they report battery life of the Samsunp Q1P with XP as 3.5 hours but the Q1P Vista as 3 hours. Not that I believe they are actually testing this but most likely they are getting these numbers from Samsung.

Oddly enough PCConnection has the Q1P XP at $1249 but the Q1P Vista at $1196

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[bobm]

Interesting opinion, I have a new HP Vista laptop (1.7G dual core, 2G ram, 120G disk) and a MacBook.

He's one of the first I've heard that is pro-Vista, I'm in a company of a couple hundred developers and I haven't found anyone that really really likes Vista (MS and Unix developers).

Some folks (me included) are running XP under virtualization due to issues getting the right drivers for our notebooks (my HP, a friends Toshiba and an oddball Sony laptop). I ended up buying a 5pack of XP Pro just to make sure that I wouldn't get locked out of XP and forced into Vista for awhile.

While Vista is pretty, they went and moved enough stuff around to make it frustrating at times.

[Davecazz]

I have switched to a macbookpro and only work with XP now. I like it a lot better than OSX. I have a desktop that is arriving with vista preconfigured and probably wont upgrade my mac until I know more about it.