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XP vs Mac vs Linux
Oct. 30, 2001

Microsoft has 90+ percent of the desktop market, but how does its new Windows XP stack up against Mac OSX and Linux? In this article at PC World (New Zealand), Juha Saarinen compares the three popular software environments in five ways: installation; look and feel; usability; features and software support; and performance. Saarinen writes . . .

"Microsoft's overhauled desk-top OS, Windows XP, has now been unleashed on the world. It's big and requires plenty of system resources -- it does run in 128MB, but only really becomes enjoyable with 256MB, a fast PIII/P4/Athlon CPU and a snappy graphics accelerator. On the other hand, there's no denying Windows XP is a very good general-purpose operating system. It's stable, fast, supports just about every kind of new hardware there is, and is backed up by mountains of Win32 software. But how does it compare to a couple of the rivals?"

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