----- Original Message ----- From: "James S Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "G-List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: Tribute to OS X
What on earth makes you assume we don't use OS X to get work done? OS 9 may be a bit faster in a few superficial ways, but when doing real work, OS X is much faster. Preemptive multitasking
Yes there's preemptive multitasking, but what really annoys me is that allthough OS X can do a lot of things at once, me the user, is waiting all the time untill the system is done doing it's things while you're busy doing your work. I mean usually you open a document, and bing, it's open, in OS X, opening something you sometimes get the spinning beachball (already called the spinning ball of death) for no reason at all. Even when you're not doing anything it looks like it's connecting to outer space or something.
And then I'm not even talking about the slow GUI with all it's pretty shadows and such. I just want to drag a window around, and drop it somewhere else, doing that in OS X is always slower than in a previous OS. Yeah, you perhaps would say, but why don't you install some sharewhare then which gets rid of all the fancy things? Well I don't need an OS which I have to edit to get the right speed out of it. I'm sorry, but if one doesn't know what I'm talking about right now you will never know.
We make thousands of lowres PDFs, and certified highres PDFs every day, automated with Distiller, PitStop server and Odystar. Of course all these things are done on our Unix servers. But you won't actually see these PDFs untill you click on the folder where they are being generated. Only when clicking on these folders will they refresh the contents, they won't refresh out of themselves. Well if you, like us, have tons of folders which we use for several purposes you can't continuesly click on all folders to refresh them all the time.
Our designers gained back a good hour a day from that, alone. And, then there's stability, memory management, and so on...
Well designing is not the same as pumping data so perhaps they don't need that much speed as we do.
Stability, yeah, I've had apps crash in OS X like we all have sometimes, but managed to get OS X to refuse to login once, something about a corrupted preference, finally had to get rid of the complete prefs folder so that I could login. Luckily our home folders are stored on a seperate server so the sysops can manage our systems.
The prepress people I've talked to here in Seattle also tell a different story from what you've experienced. Are you trying to use Quark?
Yeah Quark 6 and Quark 4 in Classic in OS X of course, both are slower than Quark 4 in native OS 9. Just dragging your page aroud in Quark is already a pain in the behind.
One of the reasons we Mac users were pushed to use Mac OS X especially since new Macs can't run native OS 9 I built a PC for personal use a few years ago which is still much faster for browsing the internet. I take it for granted that I have spyware and virii from time to time, but that's fixed very easy.
Luckily Apple released a 'cheap' Mac a while ago, the Mac mini, I'm getting one to play with it, upgrade it and then it will be my new server so I'm still not a complete 'contra-switcher'. ;)
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