Leopard performance better than Tiger? Better than Windows at least???

[yetanotherdave]

Do you have your speakers on? I ask because when you activate the voice over utility with command + F5 (which I was always doing when I switched) t can make the system pause while it speaks to you.

[.edit] whoops didn't see you'd worked it out already

While tweaking unrelated System Preferences I came across a setting "Put hard disk to sleep when possible"... turning this off (ie disabling the checkbox) has resulted in significantly fewer pauses using the system... I think the Mac was aggressively sleeping the disk...

As of right now I'm a much happier camper wrt my MBP performance.

Cliff.

 

[AdeFowler]

Glad to see you figured it out. Shame on us for not coming up with the solution earlier.

...and shame on some for suspecting Cliff of trolling

 

[kellah]

I 'switched' from Windows to Mac about two months ago using a Macbook Pro 2.4GHz that I upgraded to 4GB of RAM... however some things are extremely pokey for no reason... for example, typing the word 'extremely' paused for half a second!!!! It's like the multi-tasking (it just did it again) on Mac OS X is terrible compared to Windows... (yes I've reboot, no I don't have anything else running)...

Does anyone know if performance on Leopard is better than this? All I see are announcements about improvements in the OS that I find minimal, essentially prettifying the interface and adding a backup routine...

Thanks,
Cliff.
Spell Checker

For whatever reason, sometimes macs lag on keyboard input.