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Popular Mechanics decided it was time to settle the battle between Mac and PCs once and for all. So they did the Mac vs. PC: The Ultimate Lab Test for New Desktops & Laptops.

The final verdict: Macs win! (was there ever any doubt)

Not only did the mac win using Leopard, it also won running Vista:

We even tested Vista on the Macs using Apple’s platform-switching Boot Camp software—and found that both Apple computers ran Vista faster than our PCs did.

And my favorite quote:

Simply put, Vista proved to be a more sluggish operating system than Leopard. Our PCs installed some software faster, but in general they were slower in our time trials. Plus, both PCs showed weaker performance on third-party benchmarks than the Macs. Our biggest surprise, however, was that PCs were not the relative bargains we expected them to be. 

Quotes from Page 4 of the article which includes final benchmarks.

Time Magazine has announced the iPhone as the Invention of the Year.

Here are their reasons:

1. The iPhone is Pretty
2. It's touchy feely
3. It will make other phones better
4. It's not a phone, it's a platform
5. It is but the ghost of iPhones yet to come

Can't disagree with that decision.

Friend and fellow user experience blogger, Nikolas Laufer-Edel's latest article Leopard rethinks the OS, but this cat still has some spots to show brings up a very interesting idea:

Is Apple teaching its users to be competent with low profile keyboards to get them ready for touch screen technology on the desktop?

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