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Aesthetically Speaking. Win 7 or OSX?

Which has better Aesthetics? Win7 or OSX?

  • Windows 7

  • Macintosh OSX

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Vista :^P

Given the choices, I guess Win7 by a smidge. You can at least change the window/taskbar colors in Win7. I despise Apple's oxidized aluminum color mandate.
 
Haven't used OSX enough to have any real opinions. Windows appears to be more customizable though.

The biggest problem with both OS's is that many applications do things in their own way, so nothing looks consistent. Every program has a different toolbar/ribbon/titlebar etc..
 
I like both for different reasons about equally, i cant actually choose one. For pure aesthetics, i like Linux Mint (burning windows, wobbly windows, fold, shatter, etc) it has more eye candy than either OSX or Win7 put together.
 
I've never liked the look of OS X or iOS and the fact that Apple won't let you change it is retarded. Consistency is one thing, but forcing your users to all be exactly the same is a whole other story. I'm sure there was an internal debate on whether or not to let you change the wall paper...
 
Paperlantern said:
I like both for different reasons about equally, i cant actually choose one. For pure aesthetics, i like Linux Mint (burning windows, wobbly windows, fold, shatter, etc) it has more eye candy than either OSX or Win7 put together.
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This. I like certain things about each, but for aesthetics my Ubuntu 10.10 desktop with Compiz-Fusion takes it.
 
I use both OS's. I prefer Win 7 as far as looks and ability to modify but OS X has a better feel and responsiveness to it.
 
I like the glass on Windows 7, but hate the borders on the windows. If I could get borderless windows I would be much happier.

However, I also like the unified menu bar at the top of the screen in OS X, much easier click target, if you actually use it (keyboard shortcuts FTW), and that means smaller or less cluttered title/menu bars on the windows.

So, some sort of combination of the two. I agree that the styling of OS X is showing its age. They keep doing little things with it, it evolves, but I am just wondering when we will see a full revolution like going from OS 9 to OS X.

And I am not sure if this bugs anyone else, but the minimize and maximize buttons in Windows 7 Aero... the maximize button is like 1 pixel wider. Bugs the crap out of me when I have windows layered.
 
lxskllr said:
I was keeping my choices somewhere close to the OPs, but yea, I love Gnome. For out of the box beauty, I think Vista is best. For beauty after tweaking, my choice is Gnome.
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I cannot really recall, what are the differences aesthetically between Vista and 7?
 
TheStu said:
I cannot really recall, what are the differences aesthetically between Vista and 7?
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The biggest thing that sticks out for me is the rounded glass on the taskbar. I really don't care much for the flat glass on Win7. I think the default colors are darker on Vista also(talking about the first boot experience here). I also like Vista's sidebar. Keeping a section of desktop segregated for information is useful to me, especially with a WS monitor.
 
lxskllr said:
The biggest thing that sticks out for me is the rounded glass on the taskbar. I really don't care much for the flat glass on Win7. I think the default colors are darker on Vista also(talking about the first boot experience here). I also like Vista's sidebar. Keeping a section of desktop segregated for information is useful to me, especially with a WS monitor.
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Windows 7 still has the sidebar, it is just off by default IIRC.

One thing that I really like, and have imitated in OS X is the live previews on the taskbar icons. That and I like just having the icons there. With the live preview I will actually group my icons now, something that I never did in XP.

Hate Aero Snap. I almost never need 2 windows side by side each taking up exactly half the screen. And the snapping to make it fill from top to bottom is nice, but it doesn't maintain that when you restart.
 
TheStu said:
One thing that I really like, and have imitated in OS X is the live previews on the taskbar icons. That and I like just having the icons there. With the live preview I will actually group my icons now, something that I never did in XP.
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Live preview is great, but I don't like grouping icons. On my trial of Win7, I made it as close to Vista as I could. Grouping icons adds an extra step for me to open the relevant application. I clean up after myself, and seldom run out of room on my 24" monitor. It's easier for me to directly pick the window I want, rather than preview, and then pick the one I want.
 
TheStu said:
Windows 7 still has the sidebar, it is just off by default IIRC.

One thing that I really like, and have imitated in OS X is the live previews on the taskbar icons. That and I like just having the icons there. With the live preview I will actually group my icons now, something that I never did in XP.

Hate Aero Snap. I almost never need 2 windows side by side each taking up exactly half the screen. And the snapping to make it fill from top to bottom is nice, but it doesn't maintain that when you restart.
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I really hate the taskbar previews, probably because 90% of my Win7 usage is via RDP and they don't work there so I got used to not having them and they just seem slower than a normal list of windows/tabs. I can pick my destination quicker via the title text so I don't really see the point.
 
I use aero snap all the time. It's very handy when you have a 24" widescreen and want to view two windows at once. I could be writing a paper while referencing to a pdf reader, or be watching a tutorial video on php while having a php editor on the other half, etc..
 
astroidea said:
I use aero snap all the time. It's very handy when you have a 24" widescreen and want to view two windows at once. I could be writing a paper while referencing to a pdf reader, or be watching a tutorial video on php while having a php editor on the other half, etc..
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I never said that I never have things side by side, just that the times that I want both of them to take up exactly half the screen is next to nil.

There is a third party program called Divvy that gives you finer control over window width and height, so you could, for example, have 3 windows, each taking up a third of the screen (height or width), or 12 windows each with an equal share.

So, instead of dealing with Snap (and the aforementioned vertical snapping that ultimately fails in execution for me), I would just use Divvy if I were to actually do real work with my Windows system.
 
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