Snow Leopard is Better
Ok, so I got windows 7 yesterday and installed in so I could boot it through bootcamp for any intensive statistical stuff I may need to do in the future. Apple hardware is just plain better and my mac runs windows xp through a virtual machine almost as fast as it runs it natively through bootcamp. Anyways, the one thing that can be slow with larger datasets in a virtual machine is SAS. I really only have one comment about Windows 7. It feels like an old mac os x, but with way more warnings and no soul. The reason I love my Mac is because the OS is just so good (even in these early days of Snow Leopard) and things do what they need to do. Windows 7 tries to do that, but ends up providing so many warnings and prompts that I don’t actually want to use it. Example 1: I download SAS and attempt to unzip it with Windows 7. Result1: extraction takes so long i cancel it. Example 2: I try and move the SAS zip file to the desktop. Result 2: Error this file cannot be moved because it is open in windows explorer. (duh, how else would I be able to find it?)
Maybe this is all my fault. I tried to make the OS do something without downloading an external program, something that you just don’t with windows. In other words, I tried to use windows like I’d use a mac.
If all those people on the windows commercials are right and windows was their idea, they should be punished because windows 7 is no better than any other windows operating system and frankly, only windows xp was even remotely decent.
May 20, 2010 8:11 am 1 Comment
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By Sara, May 21, 2010 @ 2:34 pm
Windows’ sucks. All I get out of their campaign is how hard they are trying to make it like a mac.