I enjoyed Matt’s recent blog post on “The Vista Schoolyard Bullies” where he analyses some of the Mac/PC propaganda and provides some very good thoughts on why Vista gets a rough ride. I’m not saying you should all switch to Vista immediately but for a dose of reality about some of the negative media Matt’s posts is as good as I have read. He puts forward one intriguing question that got me thinking when he compared it to Vista users:

how many Apple users do you know that own a 3 year old Mac, and install Leopard on it?

 

That was followed by an excellent post form Josh on Looking for Windows Vista Performance Issues which made me smile a lot. I’m a real tweak freak when it comes to my PC – always on the lookout for ways to squeeze out some more performance in any area. Let me say straight off that what Josh covers isn’t for your average PC user and they really shouldn’t have to care about this kind of stuff but in the era of crapware and poor system resource programming there are some great tips that remind me of my own Vista tweaking. xbootmgr is new to me though so I’m off to play with that given Josh says he got almost 30 seconds improvement in shutdown time from using it.

Nice writing guys. I enjoyed it a lot and learnt some good new info.