It does seem that the new MS Windows 7 will balance some of the arguments between the opposing camps of Mac vs Windows.
It’s frightening what beasts of machines many PC gamers are running these days and some must be moving mountains of cash in search of speed, speed and more speed. I am sure they do not need any waffle from me on the pros and cons of Solid State Drives vs. 
Spinning Discs.
Probably it’s because of the lack of games available for Mac that most gamers will be running a Windows based machine for fun and perhaps another Windows based PC, laptop or a Mac for business or for the mobility of a laptop/notebook.
With Windows 7 the major makers are promising free upgrades for recent purchasers of MS Vista loaded machines whereas the Mac Snow Leopard OS upgrade is already available but as far as I know it’s all to be paid for. If you are a Mac user then the Snow Leopard OS upgrade is probably a no brainer unless the pennies are very tight because it’s not an expensive thing to do.
For my way of thinking unless a Windows user already has a good spec machine running Vista then the upgrade to MS Windows 7 seems way too complicated and do we need that amount of aggro?
All that talk about loading to a different drive or repartitioning the drive and running 2 operating systems in tandem etc etc come on – life’s too short for all that stuff isn’t it? Well for most of us probably but then PC Gamers are probably not at all phased by OS changes.
If you are already running MS Vista and have the necessary RAM and hard drive capacity it looks within the realm of a “not too hard an upgrade”. But if you still live in 2001 and are running MS XP then it can be a complete pain and the machines from back then and especially my (not that old) laptops may not have the RAM and hard drive space to run the new MS Windows 7 operating system anyway.
Your gaming machine would likely have more than enough capacity to run Windows 7 or you just drop in another drive and hey presto. Snow Leopard’s 64-Bit support speeds up calculations x 2 as well as still being 32-Bit compatible for the older apps.
Snow Leopard’s 64-Bit support speeds up calculations x 2 as well as still being 32-Bit compatible for the older apps. If I were considering an upgrade to Windows 7, I think I would what to be sure I had the hardware to get onto the 64-Bit version. MS Windows 7 needs: 1GB RAM for the 32 bit version or 2GB RAM for the 64 bit version. 16GB of free hard drive space for the 32 bit and 20GB of free space for the 64 bit version of the operation system.) Other system requirements apply in addition to the above so if you go onto the Microsoft website you can get a little program download that will check our your system and what additional memory you might need to be able to do the upgrades.
Some high level multi machine users are holding off upgrading to 7 because they fear that Microsoft will have the spate of teething 
problems that will necessitate they issue a service pack of fixes which could be many months away whereas it seems that Snow Leopard for the Mac users is a more trusted upgrade that they can feel confident to go for straight away.
The Snow Leopard Mac upgrade looks like an easy and relatively painless procedure because most of the differences between it and the previous Leopard system are as they say “under the hood” and a bit like the step up from Vista to Windows 7. I don’t suppose either of these new operating systems will draw the die hard Mac aficionados or avid Windows fans away from their respective allegiances and of course it is all about choice isn’t it?
It does seem however that MS Windows 7 will balance some of the arguments between the camps of Mac vs. Windows and if you run a second machine for work or college then maybe you want to consider the upgrade options available. this post has been produced and amended from the original posted on the sister site TheInfoChief.
Mac Snow Leopard vs. MS Windows 7
AMAZON UK Snow Leopard Store
AMAZON US Snow Leopard Store
Snow Leopard image Credit to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/41369090@N02/
