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

Windows 7 on almost similar hardware seems to boot up faster than Snow Leopard.

An antivirus programme will, however, easily change that.

This is where Apple beats Microsoft: security: it is fatal to ever have a Windows computer on the Internet without antivirus.

Which, in turn, slows down the machine’s performance.

So which upgrade is better?

A very difficult question, because the two have to be reviewed in line with their predecessors and that would mean Windows 7 is a huge blessing based on Vista’s disaster.

Mac have kept consistency with the same interface but ever so subtly improved.

Sadly, they bring nothing new to the table, just improvement.

But 7 is totally different: much better than Vista, truly a breath of fresh air.

Its performance is comparable to XP, even on more recent hardware.

It introduces a greatly improved interface.

Cleaner, and less cluttered than Vista, faster and sleeker.

Other smaller things, like upgrading drivers, do not require a reboot — something Windows has fallen down on in their past releases.

The File Manager is superbly done, beats Vista’s hands down, but the control panel is overly crowded.

Overall, albeit being overpriced, Windows 7 is better than Snow Leopard, which lacks the jazz is should have had and will age more quickly.