Reading matter, pt 2
Oct. 31st, 2007 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenMore techie stuff this time, I'm afraid. A couple of mid-length reviews of Mac OS X 10.5, the new version that's just come out after a very long wait - by Apple standards - of nearly 3y.
The most in-depth and insightful review I've seen, by John Siracusa on Ars Technica. He's done huge in-depth write-ups on each successive version of OS X since its start; this piece is neither an exception nor a disappointment, and he links to some of the best pieces I've seen suggesting how to fix Leopard's faults, problems and niggles. Siracusa really does Get It.
And a countervailing view, from Paul Thurrott, who runs WinSuperSite and is one of the most lucid and coherent Windows advocates out there. Thurrott, interestingly, went Mac a few years back to some degree, and has written intelligently about OS X before, with more balance than you'd expect from one of MS' loudest-voiced fans. He moved some of his family, including his wife, onto Macs, as it was simply a better answer to their needs. However, he remains something of an apologist, especially for Vista, which he likes beyond all reason and to the faults of which he seems blind. His views of Leopard and his comparisons seem very flawed to me. Here is someone who doesn't get it, bigtime. He doesn't rant about how it's a toy, he's far too smart for that, but he dismisses major features as minor and makes what I feel are some rather irrelevant, unfair or just way off-beam comparisons with Windows.
The most in-depth and insightful review I've seen, by John Siracusa on Ars Technica. He's done huge in-depth write-ups on each successive version of OS X since its start; this piece is neither an exception nor a disappointment, and he links to some of the best pieces I've seen suggesting how to fix Leopard's faults, problems and niggles. Siracusa really does Get It.
And a countervailing view, from Paul Thurrott, who runs WinSuperSite and is one of the most lucid and coherent Windows advocates out there. Thurrott, interestingly, went Mac a few years back to some degree, and has written intelligently about OS X before, with more balance than you'd expect from one of MS' loudest-voiced fans. He moved some of his family, including his wife, onto Macs, as it was simply a better answer to their needs. However, he remains something of an apologist, especially for Vista, which he likes beyond all reason and to the faults of which he seems blind. His views of Leopard and his comparisons seem very flawed to me. Here is someone who doesn't get it, bigtime. He doesn't rant about how it's a toy, he's far too smart for that, but he dismisses major features as minor and makes what I feel are some rather irrelevant, unfair or just way off-beam comparisons with Windows.
