Smart person’s debate of OSX vs. Windows Vista

December 19, 2006 By

I’d like to get a group together to debate Windows Vista vs. Mac OSX sometime in January after MacWorld and CES (since Windows Vista ships on January 31st, that’ll be a good time to do it).

I don’t want religious jerks, but I do want advocates, especially ones who can effectively demo their favorite things.

Who is your OS debate “dream team?”

I’ll start the list of potential candidates with Gina Trapani of Life Hacker.

I’d like to end up with three people for each OS. No “Digg commenter attitude.” Just the facts, back and forth, to give people a good mental model of what’s up on each OS and what the strengths and weaknesses of each OS are.

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  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Jake: that’s an interesting idea.

    What might even be more fun is do it twice. Once with “famous pundits” and again with “everyday users” and see how the two panels differ in what they talk about.

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  • Badri

    Out of curiosity what do you consider by saying OS X and windows. Are we talking kernel/API/programming/UI, or that + all the apps that come with it. For instance imovie is not a part of OS X but does come with the apple desktop. You might want to better define what you are debating.

  • Badri

    Out of curiosity what do you consider by saying OS X and windows. Are we talking kernel/API/programming/UI, or that + all the apps that come with it. For instance imovie is not a part of OS X but does come with the apple desktop. You might want to better define what you are debating.

  • edalit

    Choices for each team should include those who can speak and write to rank beginners. Such experts are relatively rare.

  • edalit

    Choices for each team should include those who can speak and write to rank beginners. Such experts are relatively rare.

  • http://datacrush.info/ datacrush

    Sounds like a great idea, although, I must say without prejudice that Windows has lost its novelty.

  • http://datacrush.info/ datacrush

    Sounds like a great idea, although, I must say without prejudice that Windows has lost its novelty.

  • Jair

    Don’t do it. I can’t install a simple bluetooth device on windows vista x64, therefore will make Windows very silly just like those Mac comercials.

  • Jair

    Don’t do it. I can’t install a simple bluetooth device on windows vista x64, therefore will make Windows very silly just like those Mac comercials.

  • http://doknir.blogspot.com/ modicr

    Hello!

    Smart person’s debate:

    Mac OS X:
    Donald Duck, Snow White, Sidney ‘Sid’ Phillips

    Windows Vista:
    C3PO, Cinderella, Slartibartfast

    Cheers, Roman

  • http://doknir.blogspot.com modicr

    Hello!

    Smart person’s debate:

    Mac OS X:
    Donald Duck, Snow White, Sidney ‘Sid’ Phillips

    Windows Vista:
    C3PO, Cinderella, Slartibartfast

    Cheers, Roman

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  • Brody

    MARY JOE FOLEY! (TEAM MS of course…)

  • Brody

    MARY JOE FOLEY! (TEAM MS of course…)

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