We all know that Microsoft and Apple is competing with each other for the release of their newest operating system, Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. While 7 will boast a lot of new features, performance improvements, and stability and mainly usability and user-friendliness, Snow Leopard is more geared towards system performance.
Although Apple has a lot of support from fans and followers on the Snow Leopard release, we have to consider the people who consumes their products. Most, if not all, are wealthy individuals who can actually afford the system. Many of them are graphics designers, audio, and video producers. In other words, most of these people lives in the world of arts, and that is why they choose Apple and their appealing design as their personal computer. Many of them, planning to stand in line to purchase the new operating system, will probably be upset. Why? These people create art for a living and the demand for art and design is much higher than actual usability. While Snow Leopard may show a great improvement in performance, many of them won’t even notice. They will become upset with the lack of changes in features as Snow Leopard mainly emphasizes core improvements.
In comparison to Windows 7, where there are a lot of physical changes, many people who follows a market for visual appeal will most likely consider Windows 7 rather than Snow Leopard as the visual improvements is more steeper from Vista to 7, than from Leopard to Snow Leopard.
I agree. After using leopard for almost 6 months now, it is starting to annoying me. How is it used for design when the properties windows in cs4 are separate and stay in one space whilst the canvas is in the other?
And what about the window management? Its awefull. The dock is a fail
I disagree. Don’t forget Microsoft has to bounce back harder to recover from Vista’s failure. I learned on Windows and Novell systems, I am very comfortable with XP, but when Vista showed up and Microsoft refused to listen to their customers, I all but gave up on Microsoft. For the past 3 years I’ve focused on Mac development. It’s brilliant. When you buy a Mac you’re buying exceptional engineering, design and functionality. Everything is thought out. I am a systems engineer and have saved my organization millions in Microsoft licensing, hardware, and maintenance. Apple has a much lower cost of ownership and site licensing is reasonable. Unlike Microsoft.
It’s true, PCs can be cheaper and you get what you pay for. I’ve paid more than $2300 for a PC. It’s all relative, you really can’t say one is more expensive than the other. No, people who buy Mac products are not necessarily wealthy. Every graphic artist, designer and editor I know (about 7 of them) is by no means wealthy. Some have steady jobs and do okay, but most are independent and struggling trying to keep the jobs coming in. You can’t put a blanket identifier on a Mac user, same as a Windows user.
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