Eidorian said:http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/switch_expose.html
Use Exposé, hiding programs, Quicksilver, Spotlight, Finder, and Command + Tab.
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Why are Macs slow?
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Yeah, Finder is too slow for me. I tag all of my images, use good file names to begin with, and Quicksilver!Whiteapple said:My bad.
PCs are "snappier" because there isn't a whole lot of graphical splendor to draw and constantly re-draw on a PC. If you set a static monochrome background, and turn off almost all gui effects, then OSX runs pretty fast. Also be sure to check your scrolling/display setting in your browser as well as for your keyboard/mouse. I noticed it too when I first booted up my Mac but it runs very quickly now.
If anything, it's because the lowest-end CD and an Intel GMA ain't exactly afterburner'd performance for the eye candy that OS X has. For essentially single-tasking applications Yonah isn't leading edge either: A superannuated Opteron from last year can blow it away. The real benefits from CD come when you're working the way OS X does very well - multi level multitasking. I have no issues with OS X at all in terms of UI response compared to truly like-for-like Windows machines.
I guess you've never seen a window struggling to redraw itself in Windows. (Athlon XP 2600+, 1.5 GB of RAM, Radeon 9600 Pro and on my iMac Core Duo.) That's even after turning off all of the effects in Windows XP.joe50000 said:
You DO NOT want to run the Mac mini or MacBook on 512 MB. It's suicide just to multitask and run the GMA950.Sesshi said:
So you think I should blame it on the GMA950? My Mini is just as fast as my friends MBP 2.0GHZ, after upgrades. I may be mistaken or inaccurate, but it seems this eye candy could be boosted if I placed a Merom in there. No?
