stacks choppy under snow leopard, hardrive question

[rich2k4]

whenever i click the application folder in my dock. sometimes grid view appears choppy, like i can distinguish 2 frames for it to show up. If i click the applications folder multiple times, eventually stacks appears instantly with no lag. Is this my computer? i don't think it can be because it is a week old. 2.93 ghz imac. Other animations appear choppy sometimes as well, like expose, or "show desktop" hot corner. It's not like i have a lot of programs open, just safari and adium.

also about my hardrive capacity, i'm supposed to have a 650 gb hardrive, but how come when i do "get info" on macintosh HD, it says the maximum capacity is 639 gb? what happened to the other 11 GB?

 

[celticpride678]

Stacks: Are you running in 64-bit kernel? As there have been problems with animations in 64-bit.

Hard Drive: The GB storage is never accurate, even with Snow Leopard. This id perfectly normal and nothing can be done about it.

 

[rich2k4]

i don't think i am running in 64 bit. i just did a normal clean install, and i read 32bit is default.

the choppy animations don't happen all the time just sometimes. mostly on stacks, in grid view. if i have it in list, or fan, it's fast

 

[rich2k4]

anyone else know about the hardrive question?

 

[rich2k4]

Bump

 

[sananda]

whenever i click the application folder in my dock. sometimes grid view appears choppy, like i can distinguish 2 frames for it to show up. If i click the applications folder multiple times, eventually stacks appears instantly with no lag.

Same for me on my last gen Mac mini.

 

[dr. shdw]

650gb HDs technically do not exist. You're mistaken.

 

[CrArC]

Been running into the same problem on a GMA 950-based Mac Mini. Stacks which were previously much smoother are now incredibly jerky, along with most window-related transitions apart from minimizing/maximising and switching spaces.

I'm suprised how little documentation there is online for this. There must be a way to speed this up? Has anyone found a solution?

Rich2k4, that 11GB or so you're 'missing' sounds a little like the difference between quoted and physical storage on a drive. Manufacturers measure drive storage in orders of ten, whereas computers do not. So a kilobyte for a manufacturer is 1000 bytes, whereas it's more like 1024 for a computer. Any drive you purchase will say it has 'more' storage than it does because of this.