Well..i guess the best OS is decided by what it does and where it is used...
Most of the OS do what it has to do..i mean.. be able to start ur h/w up and running and be ready to serve u. i think if this is taken into consideration, XP,Vista, Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X 10.5, Mandriva, Ubuntu and some other linux flavors are all good.
But, when it comes to using the resourcers(h/w) in an efficient way and making ur computer work at da pace dat u think
D), and is bundled with packages and applications, has good technical support to back it, has good protection against da malware, spyware, trojens n worms, and has good stability and which helps u work on n on n on without freezing and give u enough freedom to add more applications, increasing the ability to take ur work, fun and life to a new level of comfort... then i guess there is only ONE clear winner... that is Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5... All 3 versions are too good. but da basic difference is da added feature in da newer versions and more n more new s/w being compatible wi da new 10.4(intel) and 10.5(intel)...
but all said...i love my Mac OS X 10.4 PPC for all my work and fun...
and i come to dis Windows XP only to play my FIFA '07... well..hope EA Sports makes a mac version of my favorite football game... and wat else do i use my windows machine for? to install and test and get a feel of all the new linux versions which i get free from da web
but again, for any useful purposes i go for da Mac....well..as da advertisement says, It just works!! i had not been a Mac fan till i dint get to use it..da first time i used it, i just liked it...but within 2-3 months, i knew my life(and work n productivity) cud've been a lot different if i had bought it some years ago...
anywyas...well...my vote is for Mac always..
well..u can read dis page i wrote some time ago...(b4 10.5 was released and Vista was just been on) ...its da 10.4 v Vista ( u all have read it, but this is a personal experience)
*abhilash.km.googlepages.com/page2
@Yamraaj
Mac OS is probably the only system out there you're not allowed to use inside a virtual machine. Pretty liberal, eh?
hey, that aint true.. Mac never restricts that. tho there is no virtual machine s/w released by Apple for Mac.. that is true.. Microsoft has a Virtual PC for Mac which is really popular among the mac fans. But after da new Parallels s/w came out, Virtual PC is kinda outta market cos Parallels has clearly better support and value for money (but parallels is only for new intel based machines)
and one more thing to add here...
Apple has been trying to move to Intel based chips some 5-6 years ago.. jus da same time they released da Mac OS X (move from da gr8 OS 9). the only reason is not cos of a PPC v Intel war in terms of technical perfection. PPC is made by IBM (and Motorola combined i guess in old days).. but anywyas, apple had once shown dat da new wave INtel craze was actually cos of the "Megahertz Myth" where most Intel processors had huge MHz and da PPC n the Sun's processors has not much.. i mean..they did a test infront of huge crowd and showed dat in doing a task its not just da megahertz dat matter...well..the electronics guys know a lot abt...anyways, i'll tell wat da apple guys explained..it was da pipeline architecture..for most of da tasks done by any comp, a shorter pipeline is da best, and dats y PPC n Sun's (Sparc I guess) had some 860MHz and intel had some 1.4GHz and well..intel's was pretty slow..and yea for video decoding n all longer pipelines wud be better if there is no "gaps"(forgot da tech term here) in b/w...
so..well..why did apple move to intel finally? cos it wanted to increase its market..well..in my terms, it wud be reaching out to customers who wants better computer!! Only Intel (and AMD) can produce processors in large volume (industrially) in shorter time..a nd apple needed such a partner.. and everyone knows who is bigger? AMD or intel? surely Intel is clear winner when u consider the mass production of processors..thas wat Apple needed and also to get the Apple Macs popular, more n more ppl shud use it. and there r lotta s/w ppl use in a Windows based machine which do not support a Mac.. so, a move to intel wud help those ppl to install a Windows OS in an Apple Mac and work.. and well.. Wat i believe is, once u r given a choice to use Windows OS n Apple Mac in da same computer, u will buy it.. and in course of time, when u use it,YOU(the windows lover) will be surely using more of Mac than da windows finally removing windows from da comp..
and well...da pricing strategy..apple had followed da same thign.. Skimming!! (da economics guys know dis)...they market da products wi a huge rate and capture da top economy group frm da buyers..(they make only a few number of products) and then, they come to da 2nd level of economy adn finally reach everyone... they will increase da no. of products and also introduce new products of same type to spread it all over da market
da classic example of dat is an iPod.. and also how da pBooks n iMacs became a craze among the Media professionals!! Apple is growing guys!!
