For about a year now, I've gone on an excursion of operating systems. For awhile I ran Ubuntu (which I really like - and it keeps getting better) until the first public beta of Windows 7 was released. Windows 7 was so nice I ran it for 6 months on two different systems before I installed Mac OS X on my "Hackintosh."
I ran OS X for about two months before the network issues drove me insane, and I switched back to Windows 7 (our LAN at work is all Microsoft driven).
When Snow Leopard arrived, I instantly purchased a family pack and installed it on our Macs but continued to run Win 7 until it seemed like there was an easy way of getting Snow Leopard to run on my PC like I had Leopard running.
Enter LifeHacker. http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow-leopard-on-your-hackintosh-pc-no-hacking-required
Preparing and installing Snow Leopard on my PC was INSANELY EASY! Not only was it easy, but now without a dongle or boot device of any kind my PC boots right into Mac OS X 10.6.1 without so much as a hiccup, from a cold start. It's an awesome sight. You might wonder whether or not the network issues remain: they might. Not sure yet. I've installed a new Cisco client which has so far performed well. Now if only SMB could somehow be replaced.
I do have Windows 7 Ultimate on order. If Snow Leopard suffers from the same malaise as Leopard did, I'll simply install Windows 7 (well, actually I will anyway) on my spare Terabyte drive and have the option of dual booting. I might even simply wipe Mac OS X and go with Ubuntu 9.10. Who knows what the future holds!
Go Cards!
