Apple’s Snow Leopard is cool, but friendlier Windows 7 cleans up

The greatest computer operating sys-tem battle is not between Linux and everything else, but rather between Windows and Apple.

A lot of people find the Linux desktop significantly weak — and to some extent I agree — so they choose to remain with the mainstream Windows or Mac OS.

The Mac OS is, in fact, a not-so-distant relative of Linux.

Sitting upon Unix, it has emerged as one of the greatest operating systems ever built.

But then again, so has Windows and so has Linux.

So how do you know whether you are right to go for the new Windows 7 or Snow Leopard?

Snow Leopard is one DVD, one update, one size fits all.

Apple has the knack for covering everyone in one platform.

At a paltry $29 to upgrade, it is impressive.

Snow Leopard is more engine upgrade than cosmetics.

The PowerPC code is gone. This is the first fully 64-bit release from Apple.

Not a half-baked and bloated upgrade to handle PowerPC and Intel Macs but the real deal embrace of Intel’s 64-bit processors.

In the cosmetics department, the interface has been tweaked, slightly, and you probably would not notice this.

Waste of engineering finesse

Which is where Windows gets it wrong.