10 Mac OS X Pet Peeves

[Powerbook G5]

Originally posted by latergator116
well i have a 800mhz eMac and everything seems to take long. I opene iMovie and it takes about 7 or 8 seconds to give me a window and then it gives me the lolipop for about 5 seconds. A lot of times when I just clisk on a menu or something it will put a lolipop on me. Safari also always seems to "unexpectedly" quit on me a lot.

What version did you use? I only have experience with 10.2.7 and 10.2.8, but both of them give me no lag with anything and I have yet to have anything quit on me or hang. Maybe Apple made some significant speed increases recently with Jag? My computer is only 1.25 GHz, so it isn't like it is vastly faster than yours, so maybe it is a software issue with versions.

 

[tomf87]

Originally posted by Freg3000
In 10.1, Command Tab cycled through all open programs from left to right in your dock, starting with the current App. In Jaguar, Apple turned Command Tab into something that would go back to your last App first, and then continue.

Annoying for some, good for others.

Hold down Command while you hit Tab.... The programs will darken along the dock that are opened. Release them when you are on the program you want to switch to. ALT-Tab in Windows does the same thing.

 

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by latergator116
well i have a 800mhz eMac and everything seems to take long. I opene iMovie and it takes about 7 or 8 seconds to give me a window and then it gives me the lolipop for about 5 seconds. A lot of times when I just clisk on a menu or something it will put a lolipop on me. Safari also always seems to "unexpectedly" quit on me a lot.

Part of the problem may be insufficient RAM and a slow disk drive. Yes, that's how Apple sells them--no, it doesn't have to make sense to sell them that way.

iMovie is rather big, so if memory is full, you'll have some swapping going on. I tried several other applications on my G3/800 with 704MB and nothing else lagged the way iMovie did. With 10.2.8, it's all quite quick.

 

[pyrotekniks]

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[coolsoldier]

Originally posted by latergator116
well i have a 800mhz eMac and everything seems to take long. I opene iMovie and it takes about 7 or 8 seconds to give me a window and then it gives me the lolipop for about 5 seconds. A lot of times when I just clisk on a menu or something it will put a lolipop on me. Safari also always seems to "unexpectedly" quit on me a lot.

Jeez, something's really wrong there! Do you have enough RAM? Even my old 350Mhz G3 iMac never takes more than about 10 secs to get a program up and usable!

 

[VladDracul]

Originally posted by latergator116
Well, yellow dog does everything faster. Applications open in 5 seconds or less. It just has an overall faster response.

But there's no way you can accurately compare this aspect of X Windows and Aqua. It is true that a menu will look snappier on most Linux systems, but try dragging a window or scrolling. You will see that there is a considerable difference between the two in favor of Aqua. Not to mention font smoothness, ease of operation, etc.

Seriously, if there is one reason to switch between all the different flavors of Unix, Linux included, and Mac OS X, that reason is OS X's GUI environment.