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Originally Posted by Kev
I'm typing this on my Windows 7 beta, not my Mac. Let me tell you a little story. It happened about two years ago. I was running XP SP2 at that time. All of a sudden, the system crashed beyond repair / restore, a couple days before my exam week of Pathology, Pharmacology, and Microbiology. I wasted an all-nighter trying to fix the PC so that I can look at the path slides online. I ended up ordering an MBP and it worked like a champ.
I have been building computers as a hobby since 1992, and worked as a part time builder during high school. I have built all my systems including the one that crashed on me. I used to run a U320 SCSI RAID 5 arrays on this machine as well. I consider my computer knowledge to be more advanced than most regular users out there. I like to o/c my own system and tweak it to the way I like it, but it has gotten to a point of diminishing margin of return. As a med student and soon to be resident, I really don't have the time and energy to deal with the B/S of an M$ system. I can tell you that the Windows 7 has crashed on me more than 5 times over the weekend. ACDSee9 will frequently crash when I try to paste CT image screen shots to create new files. It was just frustrating. Also, the computers crash so often at work (they have limited privileges, so you can't install anything on them), and we have lost countless admission H&P and discharge summaries on the work computers. The reason why I still have to use the PC is that Centricity PACS, Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager, and GE Healthcare Office EMR do not support anything but Internet Explorer. Everyone is frustrated at work regarding how crappy the OS is.
 at least copy and paste something more legit than Windows dressed up as OS X. |
So, your saying you think that Windows 7 is weak because the beta version is crashing on you?
If that is truly your disposition on the subject why are you still running it? And this thread was never about functionality of one vs. another, nor stability. My point was more focused on user error rather than faulty software because all software is faulty is your dive deep enough into it. Back to the topic of how similar the interfaces appear to be. Would one of you guys like to post a shot of OS:X?