I machines with Windows Vista, 7, OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard.
Yes, Vista was a bad OS.
But I haven’t had a problem with Snow Leopard. It has been as expected.
W7 has an issue with 64 bit and wireless, but I found a workaround.
I run SAS and use Windows for it (since there is no SAS for OS X). Haven’t tried Bootcamp yet.
Also, let’s see about W7 and security/viruses/worms/trojan horses, etc. Every time they release something, they claim that this is REALLY the time that they fix it.
Then someone in China, Russia, Ukraine, etc., finds the hole in W7.
My point is that, other than the ill-fated Vista (or Pissed-a) as my teenage son calls it, both W7 and Snow Leopard are great OS that will ALWAYS have some compatibility issues. How can you write an OS that includes all software/hardware written/manufactured by thousands of vendors over time?
If someone wants to be pro Windows or pro OS X, that is fine. But try to be at least fair in your criticism of the competition.
Bootcamp requires you to boot your Mac as a PC and this is a bore. Use Parallels instead, you will be delighted.
I knew there were some odd issues in the beta (rndismpx.sys and usb8023x.sys), but not in the RC or RTM. What kind of issues did you have? As I support Windows 7, I’d like to be prepared. Thanks for your help.
“I run SAS and use Windows for it (since there is no SAS for OS X).”
I’m assuming you’re talking about Serial Attached SCSI and probably running RAID through Serial Attached SCSI. If so then it’s unfortunate for you that you haven’t done you’re homework because there is plenty of SAS stuff for the Mac OS Leopard and even Snow Leopard.
Areca & Highpoint are two companies I know that provide SAS RAID (PCIe) cards for mac. There’s even more companies that provide SAS PCI-X cards for slightly older macs. I’d look into those if SAS is truly what’s holding you back from fully migrating to Mac because it doesn’t have too.