On 10/17/01 1:07 PM, "James Sedgwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 1:01 PM -0400 10/17/01, Sandy McMurray wrote: >>> Is it just me, or are you disappointed with OS X's speed? I am running >>> X.1 >>> on a G4/450 with 1GB of RAM. > Assuming for a minute that the OS isn't going to change (not a valid > assumption, but I do it all the time), is the bottle neck in the > video card or the CPU or the system bus or where? Add a Rage 128 Pro AGP (16MB Vram, I believe), a 100mhz system bus, big drives with many a GB free. Running at thousands off colours; not millions. Speed problems like: Clicking on hard drives in the Dock and waiting a little too long for the contents to draw. Click-and-holding on the hard drive icon in the dock to pop open it's folders in order to dive into nestled folders. There's a lag before the first level pops up. Now, this one is a just a dumb decision on Apple's part, ass you can cause the folder to open quicker if you hold to the control key while click-holding on a drive or folder in the Dock. Why isn't there a preference for this?! They have it in OS 9 et al for the delay before a spring loaded folder opens (ah... Spring loaded folders; how I miss that!) By the way, Apple STILL has that five folder limit when diving into nestled folders. How dumb! Why have such a limitation? It'd been the same with the Apple menu options control panel as well. That's why I used BeHierarchic in OS 9, as it allows endless opening of nestled folders. I FINALLY found an OS X app that allows such behaviour! It's called piDock <http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=11547&db=mac>. It's faster than the Dock at opening nestled folders. It lets you go endlessly into nestled folders... AND it has some lovely eye candy! piDock has a resizable bar that you click on to open drives and folders. This bar can have several different animations. One is gently floating bubbles. Very nice. So, I sized piDock up and down the entire right border of my display, positioned the OS X Dock over the same area (the Dock still does things that piDock does not), and the bubbles float up behind the translucent OS X Dock, giving the Dock a nice animation. Check out a screenshot at my mac.com page: <http://homepage.mac.com/agua/.cv/agua/Public/Mac%20Stuff/George%27s%20Deskt op%20Pic.jpg-binhex.hqx> Now, before anyone jumps down my throat, here, I think OS X is STILL clunky even without some CPU cycles crunching out those cute piDock bubbles! Another thing: resizing a Finder window still has the window playing catch-up to the mouse. Another bitch -- although again I admit it's all early for OS X and related software -- the OS X Epson printing features are VERY basic. Page set-up features are missing that exist in the OS 9 versions. I don't mean to say that Apple has failed. I realize we're early in OS X's evolution. This is just a discussion. Perhaps the current condition of OS X -- not to mention the small but growing availability of software -- is why Apple has chosen not to air ads for OS X, yet. GG -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
