Windows 7 has an optional preview pane for use in any Explorer window. Select a file, and the preview will appear in the preview pane. Most notably, you can now click and hold the Dock icon for any open app in order to view all open windows for that app.
Previously, windows seemed to scale down in a haphazard fashion. Windows 7 brings a new window management tool to the table, too. Called Aero Peek, this feature helps you see the window you want to jump to next. All other windows will go transparent, leaving only the window you mouse over visible. The most useful aspect of Aero Peek is its desktop peek feature.
If you want to take a quick look at the desktop without hiding all of your windows, simply move your mouse pointer to the lower-right corner of the taskbar; at once, all windows will turn transparent.
CNET Labs' Dong Ngo tests the two operating systems side by side and finds that while Snow Leopard is faster with Apple software, Windows 7 is the way to go when it comes to serious gaming. As someone who uses both platforms for work and personal entertainment, I've been wanting to do a performance comparison between Windows 7 and Mac OS X since I first got my hands on the Windows 7 RTM the final build of the OS more than two months ago , but decided to wait until I could compare the two apples to apples.
No pun intended. The right time seems to be now, as Snow Leopard has been out for a while and has even been updated to Furthermore, Boot Camp 3. Just to clarify, Boot Camp is not a virtual environment but simply a bundle of native Windows drivers--software that makes the OS work properly with hardware components. These drivers include chipset, video, networking, and so on. As a matter of fact, you can get most of these drivers from the components' manufacturers or via Windows update.
However, Boot Camp also contains drivers for Apple's proprietary hardware including the iSight Webcam, keyboard backlight, and multitouch mouse pad, and therefore it's best to get this bundle instead of looking for drivers individually.
For the sake of transparency I know a lot of you feel passionately about one operating system or the other , I will disclose how I conducted my testing so you can duplicate it if you want. There's no rocket science involved here; all you need is a good stopwatch, a MacBook Pro, and a lot of time.
It's important, however, to note two things. First, the testing described in this article is somewhat anecdotal as it was performed on only one computer and, to some extent, was conducted differently from how we generally test computers for CNET reviews.
Second, by talking about all this in such detail, I will seem much nerdier than I actually am. Editors' note: This jury is still out on this one. First off, the test machine is a inch unibody MacBook Pro with a 2. This is the model of the computer that comes with a removable battery and doesn't have the SD card slot.
This is not the latest model that comes with a nonremovable battery, which packs a lot more juice. I chose Windows 7 bit as Apple claims Snow Leopard is now a pure bit OS with most of its built-in applications being constructed with bit code. These two hard drives have virtually the same specs, supporting a SATA 3Gbps interface, having 8MB of cache memory, and spinning at 5,rpm.
I got a new hard drive so each operating system would have a hard drive of its own, with only one partition. The computer can be transformed from a Mac to a PC and the other way around just by swapping out the hard drives. Alternately, in real life, you can have both operating systems on one hard drive by running Boot Camp Assistant from within Snow Leopard to create a new partition for Windows. By the way, thanks to the laptop's nice design, it was very easy to swap out the hard drives with the help of a small Phillips-head screwdriver and a tiny torx wrench.
The installation of Windows 7 bit was then done just like with any PC: I booted the computer with the installer DVD and followed the onscreen installation instructions. Boot Camp 3. All are bit except Call of Duty and QuickTime. Windows 7 was tested with QuickTime 7 version 7. Both computers were set up for high performance in power management. No other settings were changed. Neither operating system is going to drastically change the way you work.
Windows 7 introduces a new feature to the mix: Libraries. A library is best defined as a way to view the contents of several folders all in one place. For example, the Pictures library pulls together the contents of the My Pictures and Public Pictures folders by default. You can add or change the folders tied to any particular library, of course. The closest OS X feature is saved searches known as Smart Folders , but a saved search pulls together files based on search criteria, not location.
Both Snow Leopard and Windows 7 allow a large icon view. Windows 7 supports icons up to by pixels.
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