CNET News Daily Podcast: Snow Leopard and Win 7 faceoff

CNET Labs has tested and retested both Mac OS X 10.6, known as Snow Leopard, and Microsoft's Windows 7, and they finally have the results for which handles certain tasks better. Listen in for some of the more noteworthy results.

Also on today's podcast: Facebook admits it was too slow to react to a database error that left hundreds of thousands of users without access to their accounts for more than a week, a security expert calls for Internet passports and Internet police, plus a new take on Olympic medals.

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Today's stories:

Facebook's COO: Response to disabled accounts was 'too slow'

Kaspersky CEO: You need an Internet 'passport'

Apple OKs in-app purchasing for free apps

Windows 7 v. Snow Leopard

2010 Olympic medals to contain used gadgets

Burning Man, the opera

[01Phyxius]

Inb4 mac/pc flame war.

[ballmerisanape]

and let the ad revenue pour in...

[shellcodes_coder]

Windows 7 WILL RULE!!

[jz33040]

The CNET test was the MOST worthless POS. First off, it wouldn't matter if osx was slightly faster because imacs have ****** core 2 duo's which is 3 year old technology and slow. Sure some pc's have that, but you can also get core i7 if you shop around and it's faster. I have a 3.6ghz i7, 1TB Hard drive, ddr3 and it BLOWS away any typical mac. And it only cost $800. My cinebench score was 17,300 compared to the mac in that test of roughly 5500. The point is I have a choice. And windows 7 runs rock solid and is great! But his test loaded everything through bootcamp which caused the tests to vary by 6% in some cases. What a joke! I know bootcamp is supposedly native, but it isn't not exactly as fast as if you just boot a normal pc. I did some bench marks where I let windows load normally (no boot camp). Both windows and osx got to load the way they wanted to. And those scores where well within 1-2% of leopard. In some cases beating it. I have both osx leopard and windows 7 and must say that windows 7 is so improved that I like it more than osx. Sorry, but Apple is going to have to work harder to catch up now.

[jz33040]

The CNET test was the MOST worthless POS. First off, it wouldn't matter if osx was slightly faster because imacs have ****** core 2 duo's which is 3 year old technology and slow. Sure some pc's have that, but you can also get core i7 if you shop around and it's faster. I have a 3.6ghz i7, 1TB Hard drive, ddr3 and it BLOWS away any typical mac. And it only cost $800. My cinebench score was 17,300 compared to the mac in that test of roughly 5500. The point is I have a choice. And windows 7 runs rock solid and is great! But his test loaded everything through bootcamp which caused the tests to vary by 6% in some cases. What a joke! I know bootcamp is supposedly native, but it isn't not exactly as fast as if you just boot a normal pc. I did some bench marks where I let windows load normally (no boot camp). Both windows and osx got to load the way they wanted to. And those scores where well within 1-2% of leopard. In some cases beating it. I have both osx leopard and windows 7 and must say that windows 7 is so improved that I like it more than osx. Sorry, but Apple is going to have to work harder to catch up now.