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Snow Leopard: Expose choppy?
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I would give it a few days. I have a black Macbook with 2.16 GHz CPU and overall performance was a little off the first 2 days. Now, it's running better than ever. 
I would give it a few days. I have a black Macbook with 2.16 GHz CPU and overall performance was a little off the first 2 days. Now, it's running better than ever.
hope so..not the biggest deal but I use expose a lot and the choppy animations are annoying me
Switching between spaces is choppy for me, but my expose is fine; hopefully this gets better soon.
I'm on a unibody macbook and expose is indeed choppy for me. Good to know it's not just me.. I hope Apple fixes this, though.
I haven't got the problem, but I know exactly what the OP means. Extremely low frame rate. Sort of like playing a video game with major slow-down. I suffered this sometimes on Leopard when I have lots of windows open.could you please define choppy
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Same problem here. Very annoying. When it works well I don't think there's much point in spaces. This is just as good.
Same problem here. Very annoying. When it works well I don't think there's much point in spaces. This is just as good.
I've had this. It seems to happen (for me at least), if you swipe up/down and then return back (i.e. swipe up then down) without letting go of the trackpad. This worked in Leopard (see all windows and then return).
It seems in Snow Leopard that you have to do two distinct movements.
Edit: Can someone merge my two posts? Thanks
It used to be when I first installed it. But after a few restarts it seems to be running smoothly now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3BzMpyS-0c
i get the same experience
late 08umbp 9400m, (WITH power supply attatached)
i get the same experience
late 08umbp 9400m, (WITH power supply attatached)
Mine gets a little choppy sometimes.
One pet peeve I don't like is that I can't 'hover' a minimized window in Expose. If I want to open a minimzed window, I have to click it to access it. Not a huge hassle but I love Expose because I can just move the mouse to switch windows.
One pet peeve I don't like is that I can't 'hover' a minimized window in Expose. If I want to open a minimzed window, I have to click it to access it. Not a huge hassle but I love Expose because I can just move the mouse to switch windows.
This is really weird.
Right after I installed Snow Leopard it was a little choppy.
After a restart and an hour on the internet it's as smooth as it was with Leopard.
Right after I installed Snow Leopard it was a little choppy.
After a restart and an hour on the internet it's as smooth as it was with Leopard.
Animation wise, here's what I've experienced on my mac:
- Expose is just about the same as it was in Leopard, nice and smooth
- Switching spaces (ctrl + arrow keys) is damn choppy compared to Leopard
- Dock magnification is SMOOOOOOOTH as hell, to me it's much smoother than Leopard ever was
- Stacks is just about the same as it was in Leopard
- Quicklook is the same
Overall, certain things are better, certain things are worse, and others are the same. I'm satisfied though.
- Expose is just about the same as it was in Leopard, nice and smooth
- Switching spaces (ctrl + arrow keys) is damn choppy compared to Leopard
- Dock magnification is SMOOOOOOOTH as hell, to me it's much smoother than Leopard ever was
- Stacks is just about the same as it was in Leopard
- Quicklook is the same
Overall, certain things are better, certain things are worse, and others are the same. I'm satisfied though.
My expose was unbearably choppy through yesterday. But when I started up my computer today, everything was as smooth as butter. Weird.