Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows XP

 There are many features found on Windows XP. Windows media player is a feature were the user can listen to and watch movies on his or her computer. Digital Photography, were one could take digital photographs and transfeer them on their computer the organize, work with, and share your photos, whether it’s studio-quality prints, online photo albums, sending in e-mail, or posting to a personal Web site. Game were the user can fin, play, and download many games on their computer. Windows movie maker, were the user can make home movies with their images, music, and clips that are stored on their computer.

 

The maxium amount of RAM is 4 GB.

The release date is 25 october 2001 at the average price of $90.94-$179.95

 

MS Windows Vista

Features: There are many features in Microsoft Windows Vista. The Vista has a side bar, which is located on the desktop. The side bar contains mini applications(gadgets), which one could custiomize their sidebar with. These gadgets connect to web services to deliver business data, weather information, news updates, traffic maps, Internet radio streams, and even slide shows of online photo albums.There are also many other features:  the easy access center, speech recognition, magnifier, narrator, on-screen keyboard, keyboard shortcuts, mouse keys, sticky keys, filter keys, visual notifications, and captions.

These are computers running 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, typically with 4GB of memory or more. Compared to 32-bit systems, which top out at around 3GB of memory, 64-bit PCs offer added responsiveness for people who are running a lot of applications at the same time and switching between them frequently.

The maxium amount of RAM it can hold is 3 GB.

It was released on November 8, 2006 at the average price of $1251 .

Ubuntu Linux

There are many features Ubtuntu Linux. Productivity tools: Ubuntu supports all of your favourite web-based mail programs like Yahoo(TM) or Gmail (TM). But for the office, Evolution provides all the calendering, contacts and full function office email you need. Pidgin IM also puts you in instant touch with colleagues and integrates with your personal IM services simply and easily.Browsing: Including Mozilla Firefox (Beta 5) – tested and stabilised for a platform. Faster, safer and themed for Ubuntu.Photos: Upload from your camera or phone to F-Spot and manage, tag, share and sort your photos and upload easily to you favourite social networking sites.Music and video: Plug in your PSP, iPod, MP3 player; share playlists with your friends; buy in the creative commons online music stores, stream more live radio and plug in more devices with UPnP.complete whatever your economic or physical circumstances. Ubuntu is one of the most accessible desktop operating systems around.Office applications: Word processing, spreadsheets and presentations can all be delivered through Open Office. And, they completely integrate with the proprietary office applications out there. The big difference is that they are free.

 

The Max amount of RAM is 3 GB.

The release date is on October 20 2004 with an average retail price of $658.

BeOS

 

MAC OS X

 There are many features found in the MAC OS X.  The finder, quick look, time machine, mail, ichate, spaces, safari, parental controls and Boot Camp are all found on the MAC OS X.

The ma amount of RAM is 3GB.

The release date was april 29 2005 at the average price of $129.99.

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