COMPARISON BETWEEN WINDOWS 8 AND MAC OS X MOUNTAIN LION

Appearance of Windows 8 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Windows 8

• New Start Screen and the icons are in form of rectangles and squares. 

• There are the new ‘Live Tiles’ these are actually live tiles which allows the user to know the notification of message or whatever the app is related with, can be seen in the tile itself and the user don’t have to open the app. The information will be displayed on the tile as a slideshow. 

• The Windows 8 is made more colourful and pleasant by providing the Metro Style UI.

 

Mac OS X Mountain Lion

• The Mac OS X Mountain Lion, the first view offers a typical and usual desktop. It has the traditional Mac Look.

• The Apple has introduces LaunchPad. 

• The apps are arranged like the grid in iPad and the apps are condensed to icons

App Market for Windows 8 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Mac's OS X Mountain Lion

• The availability of apps is better and are properly categorised the apps according to their type and enables to buy or download the app with a single click. 

 

The Windows Store

• Faces a shortage of apps. Although the apps are limited, the store is so smartly and attractively designed. 

• It offers a unique feature. That is, the Windows Store enables the user to actually try out the app for a limited period, before we have to pay for it. 

Cloud Storage Of Windows 8 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion

                                        

Mac

• Mac does this through iCloud. 

• It has enables the user to gain access to the documents, game-centre profiles, even apps by just providing a single user-id and password. It comes with a single log-in feature.

Microsoft windows

• Microsoft syncs the data through SkyDrive. 

• It allows the user to access the apps probably anywhere and claims that the SkyDrive will be the most powerful personal cloud storage available. 

• It follows a flexible approach that the user can get additional paid storage and can grow it as the user wants.

File Management and Touch UI in Windows 8 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Mac OS X Mountain Lion

• The Finder app is provided for excellent file searching and customisation. 

• It automatically sorts out the results of the search according to its name, type, creation date etc. And while talking about the touch interference of the Mac OSX Mount. Lion, 

• Its clear that they are not much interested in touchscreen PCs. But the Apple scores some by providing the built-in Track-Pad in Mac Books. 

• The Magic Track Pad is also available for performing some useful gestures, which is an optional accessory. And while taking the track pad, even if it makes some difficulties for the first timers, it gets the job done easily.

Windows 8

• In Windows 8, the user don't want to look for dedicated apps for file searching and customisation. 

• Simply start typing on the screen from the Start Screen. And quickly the search results will come from the right of the screen.

• Its file search capability has upgraded to maximum and even shows results from Facebook and Twitter. 

• While considering the Touch UI, it is clear that the Windows 8 is so smartly designed for both touch and normal use.

• The LiveTile will act as a perfect platform to the TouchUI.

• It's on screen keyboard is designed to be more finger friendly and responses are made even faster. It is facilitated with gesture recognition and also has palm rejection features.

Minimum System Requirements for Windows 8 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Windows 8 

It is expected to have same system requirements as the previous Windows 7.

Processor : 1 GHz or higher with 32-bit or 64-bit processor

RAM : 1 GB for 32-bit and 2 GB for 64-bit.

HDD Space : 16 GB for 32-bit and 20 GB for 64-bit.

Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Processor : 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo processor or better

RAM : 2 GB

HDD space : 8 GB of available space

Advanced GPU chipset required, Internet connection required to download and install.

Other Features Of Windows 8 and Mac OSX Mount. Lion

                                      

Windows 8

• Windows 8 comes with another cool feature which is called Windows TO GO option. 

• It really functions as a backup that it enables the user to copy all the system settings including documents, notes, apps even wallpapers directly into a Flash Drive. 

• The user's PC settings can be easily retrieved, just by plugging it into a Windows 8 loaded system and by this feature even the Start Screen remains the same as the User's.

Mac OS X Mountain Lion

• A cool feature is also available in Mac OSX Mount. Lion it is called Power Nap. 

• It is a cool feature that will surely draw many people towards the Mount. Lion. 

• This feature automatically updates the user's documents and integrated apps and is able to make back-ups completely remaining online. 

• During this process neither the CPU wakes up nor the CPU fans. It’s a complete silent process, that won't wake up the User too.