I've checked and recheck many times. I don't run any widgets in Dashboard. I don't have any icons on the desktop (the window server has to draw a window for each icon, even when you can't see them!). I also don't let any third party apps put anything in the menubar (because it slows down redraws). I only have iTerm, Firefox, Mail, iTunes, and Eclipse open. In the background I've got MySQL and Mongrel (app server for Ruby on Rails). I rarely have any swapspace in use. I suppose I could reboot everyday, but I like to pretend OS X is better than Windows.
Linux, on the other hand, blah blah blah, stable for weeks at a time, blah blah blah, consistent load avg of 1.0, blah blah blah, much less resource intensive, blah blah blah, doesn't crash, blah blah blah. (I'm preachin' to the choir, I'm sure). I'm certain it's something that I do to computers though. While most Mac users have never seen a kernel panic, I've lost count how many times OS X has kernel panic'ed on me. I like to compile things by hand. I script everything I can. I'm just plain hard on computers. On a separate note, ever since this thread started, my MacBook Pro has decided it's doesn't like waking up from suspend... Coincidence? Yeah, I don't think so either. Apple probably has some sophisticated algorithm that can detect when people are talking poorly of their products... Please bear with me while I build up my karma: "My MacBook Pro is awesome!" "I love my Mac!" "Windows is crap!" "FairPlay is totally reasonable!" "You should have to use iTunes to use your iPod touch/iPhone" "Woz is the man!" "Steve Jobs can do no wrong" Jason "OS X rulez!" Edwards On Jan 21, 2008 10:58 AM, Jonathan Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18 Jan 2008, at 18:06, Jason Edwards wrote: > > > Oh yeah, I've used it -- I've used it daily since 2003, then last > > month I got fed up and went back to Linux. And daily I see that > > stupid pinwheel of death spinning. And I'm not running a junky old > > Mac, it's a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro (not the base model). > > > > Anywho, if you feel like OS X is fast, then nothing I say is going to > > change your mind. > > > > If you are seeing the pinwheel a lot, you may some processes that you > need to evaluate. I have had some programs on my MacBook Pro that had > a lot of unnecessary overhead and once they were removed or fixed or > upgraded all was well once again. If you think your Mac is slow, you > need to check what you are running. > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
