[citation][nom]Mardy Matt[/nom]I think this is hillarious. Apple has every right to disallow people from using their OS on any given hardware. It's like getting pissed off that an XBOX 360 game won't run on a PS3. If you don't want to buy their complete package, then don't run their OS, simple as that. Win7 is more or less based off of WinVista, and we all know how wonderful of an OS that was. I find netbooks in general to be pretty terrible systems overall. Don't be cheap, spend an extra $200 and get a real computer. Tomshardware has said in the past that they are covering all news regarding all computers, Apple included, I say keep the articles coming, some of us find it interesting to know whats going on on the other side of the fence. Plus, if we want an idea of what Windows PCs and their operating system are going to look like 2-3 years from now, we just need to open up a Mac - it's like seeing the future![/citation]
First off, Windows 7 and Vista shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence, yes sure one is built from the other however the difference between the two is like black and white. And if you haven't used it then shut up. OSX has pretty much looked the same for the last 6 iterations of it. Sure it has had software improvements and a few minor facelifts but other than that same plain jane OS.
As for paying 200 dollars more, HA! More like 4 to 500 more. I'm pretty sure you can't even upgrade an iMac can you? So when you are stuck with USB 2.0 and Firewire 800 I can pay 30 bucks and slap a ASUS USB 3.0 with SATA 6gb support.
Future wise I believe the PC gets the best hardware support EVER! You can install the cheapest or the top of the line hardware, (can anyone say Radeon 5870?). As for OS yeah I think Macs still lag behind, sure they have tons of extra "features" like video editing out of the box and a few other cute things but that's about it. Can your OS say it's compatible with well over a million pieces of software. Not to mention fully capable with windows based networks (ie most office productivity use Windows machines) so you can pretty much control all windows machines in your network from a single Active Directory server? Pretty sure you can't do that with a Mac but then again that's why Windows is in over 80%+ market share.
Now to get back on topic, so 10.6.2 can't be installed on an Atom, who the hell cares its an ATOM the thing can hardly run windows and like many have said better for a lighter operating system such as Linux. It's not like you can game with it so you don't need directX