Give me a BREAK

[treetopflyer]

OS X is ridiculous! I read all of this spin saying how it was going to be the world's most advanced os, and decided to buy it.. as it turns out, running on my graphite iMac with 256 MB Ram, it is the world's slowest os. When I use instant messenger, I can type faster than the computer can think.. when I resize windows, it takes a few years for it to work. and that stupid dock is so big and clumsy.. I wish apple could have made an OS that was faster and better rather than prettier. and I call up apple and they say..."uhhh.. you can't uninstall it"

[Oompa]

This is a first release...why not give them time now to complete all of the features and optimize. There are obviously things to be done. I don't think they released this thinking they were done...do you?

As for the dock, have you tried shrinking it down?

[treetopflyer]

guess so.. I'm just accustomed to getting a better product when I upgrade my computer. I think I'll try and go back to os 9 and then wait for os 10.5 or something to come out

[Oompa]

me too....I mostly use my computer for digital audio stuff. It will be while before I can use os x for any of that. I mostly spending time getting familier with whole thing.

I did read the Inside MacOS X System Overview. It was actually pretty interesting. There was definitely a whole lot of work done beside the BSD stuff. If they can fine-tune all the technologies involved and developers really make use of the full set of technologies...it will be pretty amazing. I don't think it will really shine until there a large software base on the cocoa side.

[AdmiralAK]

I am still using the public beta lol :-p
I will not upgrade yet because as a hobby I play around with audio & visual stuff, with different OSs in VPC, and a small time DVD viewer ;-) It's better to wait a little while to let apple get all their stuff in order.

I have waited a long time for OS X, I can wait a couple of more months


Admiral

[superrcat]

Originally posted by treetopflyer
OS X is ridiculous! I read all of this spin saying how it was going to be the world's most advanced os, and decided to buy it.. as it turns out, running on my graphite iMac with 256 MB Ram, it is the world's slowest os. When I use instant messenger, I can type faster than the computer can think.. when I resize windows, it takes a few years for it to work. and that stupid dock is so big and clumsy.. I wish apple could have made an OS that was faster and better rather than prettier. and I call up apple and they say..."uhhh.. you can't uninstall it"

One thing that I found out "VERY" useful is if you boot off a Norton Utilites CD and defragment the volume, it increases performance a lot. Also, you can modify the Dock in many different ways, you can decrease the size, turn off the bouncing icons, and even get rid of the magnification if you want.

This is better and not prettier. For the first time Mac users have better memory management, and users with dual processors can take advantage of them. I would give it a chance, I mean that would be like judging Mac OS back in 1984... Once the updates are released...if you haven't already got the 10.0.1 update, you will notice major performance a redraw improvements in windows. Remember, if you have anything less than a Rage 128, some drivers don't have the hardware acceleration in them yet..give it some time. I would make 2 partitions if I were use, both with HFS so you can remove Mac OS X if you wish, but give it a chance..


superrcat-

[AdmiralAK]

I have norton 5 (utils)... can they defrag an OS X volume (in HFS+) or will it screw it up just like norton 3.5 did with HFS+ volumes (because it would only recognize HFS volumes). Is there going to be an OS X norton available anytime soon ??? ;-)


Admiral

[TommyWillB]

I have norton 5 (utils)... can they defrag an OS X volume (in HFS+) or will it screw it up just like norton 3.5 did

Here is Symantec's OS X Public Beta release notes:
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/osx.html

They don't seem to make specific mention of OS X 10.x, but it still seems to work.