Hi Clytie, Am Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:27:10 +0930 schrieb Clytie Siddall: > Today, I handed the USB key to my teenage daughter, who uses our > Mac Mini (also Intel). She is an embyro graphic artist, and a > fair representative of our younger generation of users. She > hadn't used OpenOffice.org before. She mostly lives in Photoshop, > Omniweb, iTunes, MPlayer, the Dashboard and Yahoo Messenger. Her > idea of text-mode is to open TextEdit. > > We did no preliminary setup, no language pack install or dragging > of any icons to the Dock. I thought that would demonstrate the > "quick edit/print" situation of an ordinary user at work, > school/uni, Internet café etc. > > She plugged in the USB key, then double-clicked on the Writer > icon on the key. This time, the splash screen showed properly. > The Writer window only displayed as a black rectangle at first, > and stayed that way for quite a while. In all, the app took at > least five minutes to load. > > That has to improve. I can't see people being willing to sit and > wait for over five minutes while an app loads. My daughter > immediately assumed it wasn't loading, since for at least half > that time there was no progress bar/message, no evidence of > anything happening. She also thought the black window was an > error. (She has been using a Mac since the age of 2.) I think > most users would assume the same.
On Macs the USB port in general is very slow and not very responsable when using it with OS X. I don't know if this is kind of "forced" by Apple so that users switch to the Apple favored FireWire since other -nixes don't show this significant slow down when installed on the IntelMac and neither does Windows XP installed via BootCamp so even if the USB chips in the IntelMacs aren't the fastest ones out there they cannot be the solemn reason for the slowness of USB. Did you in compare the launch via USB with the launch on a hdd. Is the launch on a hdd as slow as the one from USB? Kind regards, Eric Hoch -- ## de.OpenOffice.org - Office für MacOS X, Linux, Solaris & Windows ## Openoffice.org - ich steck mit drin! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
