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Windows 7 better than Snow Leopard

by on12 June 2009

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At least at looking backwards


Windows 7
is better at supporting ancient PCs than Snow Leopard is at dealing with elderly Macs.

Apple’s Snow Leopard will only be supported on Intel CPUs which means that users who want to use the white spotted beast will have to upgrade. This is not the case of PCs which used to run Windows in 2001 some of which will run Windows 7.

PC World did some testing and found that Windows 7 will run on a 1 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, and 16GB of free hard disk space.A lot of machines out there will run this spec, even if they will not perform all the eye candy that Windows 7 users can otherwise have. But the machine they used was an Intel P3 933 MHz processor, 768 MB of RAM, and an 80GB hard disk which was made in 2001 which is not too bad. It was less useful at recognising older graphics cards. Performance was not that great but it was usable.

However it is looking like Snow Leopard is another trap to force Apple users to buy new machines. As the old Power chips will not like the Intel flavour of Snow Leopard. In pre-financial crisis days this was good. Because Apple could be guaranteed to make additional sales. However it is questionable now whether Apple users will be able to afford any new machines.

It might be that Snow Leopard might end up gathering dust on the shelves because of this.
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