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Olivier Prud’homme decided to respond, at length, to my post on five ways Windows Vista is better than Mac OS X. The operating system wars will never subside, but if we could just stop talking in circles for one moment – maybe we could learn a thing or two about the OSes we choose not to use? Instead of basing opinions on assumptions or second-hand experiences, perhaps we’d be better served in trying different operating systems ourselves. No matter, the following message is completely unedited – so any mistakes made are that of the original author, Olivier. What are your thoughts?

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Calacanis loves his, but I’m not so sure the MacBook Air is everything it’s cracked up to be. Roshan Patel submitted a “Top Five Reasons I Wouldn’t Buy a MacBook Air” this morning, after watching my recent one-second review on YouTube:

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Ross Snowden and I have been interacting online for a while. He emailed me again last night:

I watched a video (or perhaps it was the live feed on your site) a couple of evenings ago. You were reading a letter you received from someone who mentioned they might consider switching to the Mac operating system, and you were impressed that he considered the possibility and wasn’t strictly against the idea.

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34skyline is a curious community member:

Chris just wondering what are your thoughts on the Penryn Mac Pro, and why hasn’t Apple jump on the Blu-ray band wagon yet? I’m planning on getting the new MacPro 8 Core 3.2ghz 45nm processors, 2 300gb 15,000rpm SAS, 512MBGeforce 8800 GT, 2 SuperDrives, Airport Extreme, i’ve saving up for this computer over a year, sold my PC/ MAC computer equipment, sold my 23inch to get a 30inch cinema display but waiting for the new ones to come out, heard that Dell has a new 30inch out. so can you do a video on the new Mac Pro and what your opinion on it, and are you still planning on getting a Mac Pro for yourself?

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From my Mac genius friend, ‘Darwin9′…

File Paths? In the Finder, if you select the View menu | Show Path Bar, you get an interactive path bar along the bottom of the Finder window. By interactive, I mean you can drag files to each folder in the path bar allowing you to easily move content back through the folder structure.

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I’m going to keep this person’s name anonymous for the time being, because I’m sure he’d get flamed out of existence for admitting to believing in these stereotypical myths about Macs.

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Andre Andraos asks:

I’m buying a new laptop (Macbook Pro), and was contemplating whether I should get glossy or matte finish screen. What are advantaged and disadvantaged to each? I am using this laptop both indoors and out, and planning to use it for: playing high-end games, schoolwork, web and graphic designing, computer programs, etc. What would you recommend?

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When I was asked by Jim Allchin to go through Vista betas with a fine-toothed comb, I did – and I knew my feedback would be sent to the proper teams. If I knew that the right person at Apple was listening, I’d likely compile a similar (lengthy) list of Leopard UI oversights, inconsistencies, and bugaboos – and would be more than happy to do so. As it stands, however…

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I’ve never done this before, but I was reading the responses in Steve’s Top Five Reasons that Leopard will be Apple’s tipping point and felt compelled to address some of them in a space where my readers might benefit. I hope Steve doesn’t mind.

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This page outlines 300+ new features in Mac OS X (Leopard), but I wanted to call your attention to just a few of the changes that made me leap out of my seat and scream “WOW!”

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