* 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
* 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
* 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
* DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Any word of Windows at least being able to read HFS+ drives without additional software ? Luckily, on my Mac i can read/write Fat32 and read NTFS just fine. I think microsoft should get it's act together for this most basic of features , just my opinion.

Any word of Windows at least being able to read HFS+ drives without additional software ? Luckily, on my Mac i can read/write Fat32 and read NTFS just fine. I think microsoft should get it's act together for this most basic of features , just my opinion.

Thanks for Information

I would not assume that Apple holds meetings to brain storm how they are magically going to come up with 90% market share.

Again two different approaches that eventually tie into the same market, I do not believe Apple cares about Windows 7 sales as long as it's own hardware is still rolling out the door with good gains every year; it would be to daunting of a task to try and bother to dethrone Microsoft so to speak.

I believe a misconception between to many Mac & Windows users is that both Microsoft and Apple are wishing the other would not exist; such is not the case in my opinion.

There is very little direct competition from each other in their chosen key areas of interest.

I also agree that IE is the worst browser. But at least IE 8 is now, even though it’s a rip-off, it’s still more modern and better than ie6. But some people don’t even know the difference between browsers, do you expect Microsoft to teach everyone the different browers theyhave?

The Windows taskbar does what I want it to do. Does the mac have a “show desktop” feature? Nope. I asked a friend who uses a mac. In fact, every time I see someone using a Mac, they only have two or three windows open. On Windows people have five to ten.

I plan on downloading Ubuntu this year when I get my laptop with windows 7 in it.

I would not assume that Apple holds meetings to brain storm how they are magically going to come up with 90% market share.

Again two different approaches that eventually tie into the same market, I do not believe Apple cares about Windows 7 sales as long as it's own hardware is still rolling out the door with good gains every year; it would be to daunting of a task to try and bother to dethrone Microsoft so to speak.

I believe a misconception between to many Mac & Windows users is that both Microsoft and Apple are wishing the other would not exist; such is not the case in my opinion.

There is very little direct competition from each other in their chosen key areas of interest.

mac mini’s have been around for a good 4 years starting at around $599. The laptops for years have started at $999.

You would bash apple more if they gave a laptop out @ $500 that was as thick as a book with no dvd burning or 802.11n.

Some people like a little higher end. Don’t hate.

Apple at least follows it’s own User Interface guidelines, MS intentionally misleads “joe user” as you put it with alternating dialog box’s, control panel setups (totally different from each other in the last 3 versions of windows) The Ribbon?

The Dock is complex? If you have used the windows task bar and find the dock hard to understand, you need to get back on your shortbus. The Doc is far more intuitive with animations showing you the location of your minimized windows as they minimize.

Your wrong on all levels.
IE? Besides the fact that it’s blatantly more dangerous to surf the web using IE (espeically for newbies) And the huge fact that 95% of all browser functionality is in every major browser, and there all set up in a similar fashion, why would they be accustomed to that? World wide firefox is the #1 browser, and it’s readily available

You should download ubuntu. Users like you usually contribute to large bot nets and honestly ubuntu might help you with that. Regardless your point about ubuntu being free is kinda stupid when your defending an OS that costs in some case triple OS X, and in most cases double.

to sum it up, you loose 2 internets and 1 turn.

But the majority of casual computer users are the average Joe Smith who wants to check his emails, reply to a comment on facebook, and then play Checkers before going to work.

The thing is, for a computer geek windows may seem dry. That’s because Windows is made for people that just want to go on facebook and their emails, play a few games and then go on with life. We geeks obviously do more than that. But Microsoft Paint wasn’t built for us, it was built for those that wanted to edit a photo quickly or the five year old who wants to make a drawing.

Microsoft produces simple products because simple people use it. Sure, get your Mac and then try to find IE. Can’t find it? Oh, use Safari. The dock is way different than the taskbar. All these complex things that a geek like myself could easily adjust to but Joe Smith couldn’t because he uses IE 8 to check emails.

And you know what? I’m just going to download Ubuntu on my PC and make it look and function like a Mac, for free. And it has complex programs. Like Macs. Only FREE.

comparing the quality of Windows apps to mac apps is laughable. Not saying that Windows 7 isn’t leaps and strides better (welcome to a modern os) Just saying that the Mac side benifits from OSS development, and much tighter control on the UI.

Your own argument “I’m not used to it, it’s so different!!” Is better applied to the Mac platform, the UI is far more consistant for the last 5 or 6 years.

show me your handbreak, show me protools work on a PC like it does a mac (it doesn’t) Show me your iphoto. Even products that have PC versions from the same company, like Roxio EZ CD creator, compare that to Roxio toast for mac. The glue you sniff must be very strong.

Enjoy your lead where you have it. Your PC can open up Microsoft project files like no body’s biz. I hear MS Paint 4.0 is going to kill photoshop.

Boot Camp was only a crutch for lifetime Windows users to adapt to using the Mac and feeling their old security of “If I need to I can”.

Windows is a decent OS, Microsoft is an excellent software engineering company; that's their market not hardware.

Apple has clearly looked at a different way to do business by not playing in the same pool with everyone else, it's decided to make it's own ecosystem and you know what? They are making billions of dollars weather we believe it's good business or not.

Apple might not be a big time player, but who needs to be when you corner the high end of the price bracket and have customers that keep buying?

Boot Camp was only a crutch for lifetime Windows users to adapt to using the Mac and feeling their old security of “If I need to I can”.

Windows is a decent OS, Microsoft is an excellent software engineering company; that's their market not hardware.

Apple has clearly looked at a different way to do business by not playing in the same pool with everyone else, it's decided to make it's own ecosystem and you know what? They are making billions of dollars weather we believe it's good business or not.

Apple might not be a big time player, but who needs to be when you corner the high end of the price bracket and have customers that keep buying?

Oh look, Norton wants me to renew my subscription. How fun. )

Thanks, but no thanks. I’ll stick with Mac.

i do understand why this bs is not fixed!!!

it is cooling failure!

ms don’t make hardware but they could have picked good one tho!

i thought i will never see it fail in person but i did!

if they make a pc you will be shocked! Microsoft os is very good and stable but your stupid hardware make it suck!!!!!!!!!!

advanced pc user never buy hp dell compaq toshiba or any bullshit like that~!

that is what you did wrong! “you pushed a cheap pc over the edge!”

if you spend all that money on a pc well you have no idea!

what do you do with a mac? edit video or photo all day long? internet all day long???

pc is the most innovative! it is constantly changing ! mac jest copied Intel CPU!

yes learn it from us!!!

hahhahahah
Apple does not care about market share folks. They only care about sales!
lol

“have an apple a day keep the ms tech support a way!

Dan

it will be a different game if they do!!

i hacked to get it working on a dell e1505 laptop! ahhahahahha:P

it is suck!!!

very funny! watch!
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-escapist-film-festival-2009/1101-PopFight-Mac-vs-PC

get a pc!! lool

I like the Macs hardware but Windows 7 is a far better choices as an OS because it runs anything and everything. I think a lot of people buy Apple as a hardware choice rather than a platform these days.

My boss has ordered an iMac 27 with i7 and 8 GB for me and I am looking very much forward to use it as a Win7 because that's the only way I can do %90 of my job.

Macs not only is costly as a body (Hardware) but also costly as work done (software).
In my experience with Mac guys at stores and online help, they could not make it work on Arabic/Persian script. Only few software (useless ones) work. On the other hand, my iPhone works fine with Arabic/Persian.

Win2K through Win7 all work on any language they have just with only ALT+SHIFT exchange.
Be it, video editing, web authoring, or simple word processing, Mac has a long way to to reach the power and beauty of Win7.

I had all my hopes that once the SnowL comes, it will start other language packages and that it will support things like Windows, but it didn't.

Again, I really like Macs the way the look but my work is done only with Win7 be it Win7 on iMac or a Dell, I choose iMac 27 with Core i7 and 8GB is more than enough for me. Why? Because it just look good and less space until the “ALL IN ONEs come up with a solid design and powerful processing power.

Happy New Year to all and may God bless you this new year.