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Hard drive requirements and Installation
Snow Leopard promises to use 6GB less of storage. It is uncertain how they achieved such a drastic reduction, but we do now that they at least cut away all coding from PowerPC-based Macs. Windows 7 does not directly promise us how much extra hard drive space we will save in connection with the upgrade, but at least compare some of the other requirements can be compared.
Snow Leopard requires a minimum of 5GB while Windows 7 in comparison needs 20GB for 64-bit systems and 16GB for 32-bit systems. This is definitely a difference significant enough to affect you.
Installation of Snow Leopard works by inserting the installation disk in the machine, and then it handles all the rest. You do not have to choose between an upgrade or full installation, and it also recognises most of the hardware to a large extent.
Windows 7 requires you to choose which type of installation you are performing. In addition, Windows has – understandably enough – minor problems with finding drivers for some of the hardware. This is likely because Windows-based PCs are highly customisable in terms of hardware, so Microsoft has a much bigger problem to solve when it comes to hardware combinations.
All in all, the difference between installing the two systems is minor – Snow Leopard is faster to install, but only slightly.
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in Hardware & Accessories by nyk001, 08-05-10 12:46