To be fair Win7 has some nice features but let's not forget it's still huge, full of nannying and hides options in obscure places, splatters DLLs all over your harddrive and eats resources. In short, it's still Windows. To the credit of Apple, at least they have been trying to trim the resource footprint of MacOS.
Since when? Snow Leopard uses more RAM and just as much disk as Leopard did (mainly because they removed PPC compatibility, not some magic diet they put the OS on), which used more resources than Tiger, which used more than Panther, etc.
Your description sounds like any modern OS be it Windows, Mac OS, or Linux. They are all getting bigger, using more memory, and have many more features that take more disk space.
I agree with the comment on 64bit being a missed chance for MS to go this direction. Let's face it, over 200Mb for a driver! That's insane.
64bit has nothing to do with driver size. Microsoft has offered a desktop 64bit operating system since 2003 (XP x64) so things are fairly well sorted by now. Of course, in the beginning there were application and driver issues just like Snow Leopard is having now. See my post about my Snow Leopard 250MB+ driver update for my old Canon inkjet. The HP driver pack is over 300MB now!!! Thanks Apple. :lol:
