http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
No kidding, just blur your lens flares a bit and it do just fine for highlighting part of the image. And dont use a generic one. Make one yourself. Most of the time, if you have to choose with or without, the image with is the winner. The best lens flare is the one you dont notice.

That one is quite obvious but its not a fat generic one. They just used few minimal circles to do the job. I cant complain.]]>May 22nd 2009 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 23rd 2009 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 23rd 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
Dammit we need an EDIT BUTTON!]]>May 23rd 2009 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
Here's a simple test for you to perform to see if its yet at the same level. Take Windows 7 and install it on a 12 year old PC and sit it side by side with a G4 Apple Powermac 400Mhz running 10.5.7.]]>May 22nd 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
I don't think it will. I am not an Apple Fanboy, but OS X runs much smoother then any MS OS out there, and you know with MS's history, 7 will be buggy till SP1 comes out...it has been that way since 98'. So you can't say it won't happen. 7 does look very promising! I am rather excited about it. RC1 is great also. ]]>May 22nd 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
What is so hard to about comprehending "12 year old PC". Is a PC a mac? Are you confused? Anyway the reasoning being using an older PC vs a 2 years newer mac is that back then PC's had an incredible edge on macs performance wise.

Satisfied? Idiot.]]>May 22nd 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/233 MHz Introduced May 7, 1997
266 MHz Introduced May 7, 1997
300 MHz Introduced May 7, 1997]]>May 22nd 2009 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
That's 2 me : 0 you

Try again, this is fun lol]]>May 22nd 2009 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
Leopard system requirements:

General requirements

* Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor

Pretty sure you won't be using 10.5.7 on a 400 mhz G4.]]>May 22nd 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
By your ass backwards logic, Win CE is the ultimate OS, hell you can practically run that on a toaster.

I've got some crayons you can play with if you want.]]>May 22nd 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
a PowerMac G3/300 scores 10.2 on the BYTEmark test, more than twice as fast as the 4.3 rating the Pentium II got, and 45 percent higher than a 400-MHz Pentium II

So I believe that would make Me 2: you 0]]>May 22nd 2009 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
@Mark

As I've said 12 year old PC vs 400mhz G4 is a pretty equal match in raw performance. So no, my point is not moot. And adding in the G3 processor for comparison isn't exactly being fair as that particular series (save for the late models) could never handle OS X well.

The purpose of the comparison encompasses general OS performance Win vs Mac and gives a starting point for analysis... seeing as modern PC vs MAC are generally comparable which wasn't the case 10 years ago (apple being inferior). The ability of an OS to scale backward to antiquated hardware and still perform at a usable level is not generally important for the masses but can be used a as a level. OS X vs Win7 on an even (and low) battleground for comparison would in theory scale forward to modern hardware in terms of performance. And as we have come to learn performance is a key factor in usability.]]>May 22nd 2009 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/You do realize that PC stands for personal computer which a Mac is.
Moron.]]>May 22nd 2009 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
Vista came out in 2006? Now its 2009, and this thing is basically Vista with 3 years of polish.. Oh wait, its not out yet. Keep waiting.

The fact that it LOOKS NICE visually is easy. The suckage of Windows runneth deep my friend. Much like WinMo, you have to dig deep to find the ugly Redmond, WA, property, and when you do, you will be sorry.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard will be fleshed out next month, and might even come out before this. So far Windows 7 looks great, but not something they should be charging for. Remember this was an APOLOGY for Vista from day one. You're not supposed to charge an arm and a leg for an apology.]]>May 22nd 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://i39.tinypic.com/zsvkn5.jpg]]>May 22nd 2009 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
Stop right there. You're already admitting it isn't a fair comparison. So drop it. It doesn't work that way. And you've provided no evidence that OS X will even work or work well on a G3/G4.

It's like saying Windows NT 4.0 is better than 7 cuz it runs faster on my 15 year old computer. How about comparing modern OS's on modern hardware thank you very much.]]>May 22nd 2009 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
Seriously, XP still the best for creative apps. My old G5 was the same, I could not even use my wacom tablet efficiently because of the crap graphic engine.

I'll definitively get a mac for my parents... but for a power user, mac world is not deep enough.]]>May 22nd 2009 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
Amen.]]>May 22nd 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
I suck at this. :P]]>May 22nd 2009 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/Who's ahead of who again? OS X has a few nifty tricks. But for the most part it has some very primitive aspects to it as well. Aspects that Apple being Apple refuses to deal with. While I love the concept of drag to install and remove, you still have 3-4 different locations where shit can still remain after dumping the core app. While this may not overly effect the OS its a symptom of a greater problem: Apple is a lazy company who would rather focus on the iPhone then bring their OS up to a level that it should have reached in '04.]]>May 22nd 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
After all Microsoft has spent way to long fiddling with its UI and it's time for some basic stuff to be fixed than constantly changing. Although I still have my reservation in terms of the technology that Microsoft has put into Windows 7. As far as I'm aware, it's still ships with 32/64-bit versions whereas most modern Core 2 Duo CPUs are all 64-bit already. It certainly has a catch up to play with Apple in terms of GPU processing. But overall I'm glad to see Microsoft kinda back on track, but just find the hype of this latest iteration based on hope that things will finally work this time a little bit sarcastic.

And last but not least I always thought that Microsoft really ought to ship this release FREE to vista users, either as a big SP, or at least in showing an apologetic gesture for ruining their lives over the last 3 years. Apple did it with its 10.1 major release, and I think Microsoft ought to do so as well this time round.]]>May 22nd 2009 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
If you're going to say that 7 is what vista should have been, you may as well say that 7 is what 3.1 for workgroups should have been. When you get down to it, Vista suffers from a poor reputation, not from being a poor OS (in my experience, at least). That hardly deems it necessary for a company to give away a significant new product that they've been pouring work into for a couple years. ]]>May 23rd 2009 1:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/
Or is that just me... It could be jsut me. ]]>May 22nd 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 23rd 2009 3:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/22/windows-7-branding-leaks-out/May 22nd 2009 7:38PM