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Worried about the 10.7 dock - no running apps indication

When we first suspected that Apple was dropping the indicator lights, I wasn't sure what to think about it, but now that it's here, I'm starting to understand...

I think that Apple is trying to rethink the whole paradigm of an operating system. They're trying to make it seemless and easy for non-geeks unlike 99% of us on this board. Think about it: what do most non-geeks use a mac for? Photos, email, internet, watching movies, listening to music, doing homework... This isn't exactly CPU sucking pro-app usage. They don't care whether an app is running in the background or not. They just want to click on the dock icon and have it work. Apple is saying, "let the OS worry about regulating ressources."

What's important is that they've included the option to turn the indicators on which shows that they do care about pro users who DO need to know these things.

That along with the revamped Finder, Mission Control, Server software...this Lion is NOT the iOS-ified operating system we were fearing, but a rethinking of how an OS can work for both geeks and non-geeks. I for one am looking forward to this summer!
 
Mavimao said:
I think that Apple is trying to rethink the whole paradigm of an operating system. They're trying to make it seemless and easy for non-geeks unlike 99% of us on this board. Think about it: what do most non-geeks use a mac for? Photos, email, internet, watching movies, listening to music, doing homework... This isn't exactly CPU sucking pro-app usage. They don't care whether an app is running in the background or not. They just want to click on the dock icon and have it work. Apple is saying, "let the OS worry about regulating resources."
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Finally someone gets it.
 
I’m glad to see an OPTION being there at least. :)

The problem with Mac OS X regulating resources is that it’s doing a shabby job especially with Safari being a monstrous RAM hog.

Nobody will tell me that they can run Safari with 20 Tabs open, Flash videos etc and then “just close the window” and everything will be fine. No, it won’t!

The HDD will start grinding as soon as you “close the window” for the 10th time. The average user will feel a noticable performance decrease which is non existent in Windows (since closing a window closes the app, too) or earlier MAc OS versions (you still see Safari is on!).

In a perfect world if MAc OS X were as good to manage the resources well then it’d be a non issue but Lion makes it a disaster waiting to happen.
 
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