The reason is that OS X has fantastic multi-tasking capabilities, at the sacrifice of UI responsiveness. OS 9 stops everything while you hold down the mouse button, OS X stops nothing.
Apple's own internal tests cited this as a major focus area (along with boot-up and login time), and one that has been tackled in Panther. Although it pains me to say it, it looks as if you are going to have to shell out for another OS upgrade.
Matt
On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 08:13 pm, jdc wrote:
I'm not saying OS X is slow on my 500MHz 768Mb G3 Pismo but it doesn't feel as responsive as I'd like it to.
I use APM Tunner, Shadow Killer and themes with no transparency but I get no noticeable improvements.
The "eye candy" may look good but I'm getting quite fed up with it. When you work with a computer on an everyday basis it's hard to accept the time you loose while looking at window animations and transparent menus.
I'm thinking of buying one of the faster Powerbook G4 but I'd like to see Apple try to please their costumers, even the ones that don't have the money to buy a new computer, before a give (a lot) of my money to them.
I once tried Yellow Dog on the Pismo. Color correction was all wrong - the LCD was rather bluish, the OpenGL drivers were buggy but the screen was Fast! Faster than the 1GHz Pentium III with Redhat/Sawfish I use at work. Why is OS X/Aqua like this? Even computer games have performance tunning options.
Anyone has any sugestions?
Joaquim
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