On 6/14/05 10:45 AM, "Tom Sobczynski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use 10.4 on my 1GHz AlumBook, and find these criticisms puzzling. Of > course such a powerful search feature draws heavily on the computational > resources of such a meager computer with slow I/O. If Microsoft drags out > the corpse of Longhorn about 5 years late with anywhere near this level of > fit and finish, the press will be raving about its excellence for months. > Steve Jobs has to pull miracles out of the sleeve of his turtleneck every > six months just to stave off rumors of Apple's demise, and I for one think > this is starting to sound like so much whining. Be glad to have all of > these terrific capabilities at your disposal and try to think positively > about the speed boost we will see from the Intel-based PowerBooks on the > horizon. If you really want to feel great about your PowerBook, try using > a Dell laptop running XP for a week. You'll greet your PB as if you were > returning from war. On 6/14/05 11:36 AM, "sandro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Overall I would have to say that Tiger is an improvement however I did have > to do a bunch of things to get it that way, and as with any major OSX > release, I had to fight to make some apps work and be happy or be gone (see > all the internet hate targeted at cisco for their vpn client). > > 1. I think dashboard is eye candy and a complete waste of cpu and ram so I > immediately downloaded DashOnOff ( http://tinyurl.com/cnqta ) which is a > prefpane that turns dashboard off; it basically puts a gui on the terminal > commands. > > 2. spotlight is very slow, especially when compared to its inspiration, > quicksilver. One can speed it up somewhat by de-selecting filetypes in the > spotlight prefpane, and also re-order the filetypes (for example, I like > folders to appear before documents, and I definitely don't need to index my > music files). > > 3. now I could very well have completely misunderstood how osx uses swap > files, but I believe the virtual memory and swap allocation methods work > better than they ever have and apple finally added a maxsize to the swap > files; in previous versions of OSX after the initial 64MB swapfile, > swapfiles were written out as a 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, and finally in a > succession of 1GB files. In Tiger, they cap at 256MB (I am almost certain of > this cap number). I push my machine pretty hard and even with 2GB of RAM my > 1GHZ AL powerbook still ends up writing a bunch of swapfiles, especially if > I launch photoshop or virtual pc; I literally could have 6 or 7 swapfiles > going. I've also noticed that after you quit some apps that are hogging an > entire swap file (think photoshop or virtual pc again). It's just nice to > see that tiger isn't gobbling as much drive space, but more importantly > isn't trying to read/write multiple 1GB swap files because those were some > 5min beach balls... > > 4. automator is pretty cool and I do believe it will become much more of an > asset as it matures and we all become more comfortable with writing and > distributing our own actions, or apple finds a way to facilitate the writing > of actions. I am not sure why one has to create and compile an action as a > project in xcode; it's an applescript at its core and I would have loved > something more like an 'export as an automator action' from the applescript > script editor. I know, I know, I just incurred the wrath of many developers > out there :) > > 5. smart folders are also pretty hip, especially when you dig into the > 'other' criteria, or if you're feeling particularly daring, the 'raw query' > in the list of other criteria where you can really get deep; looking for > pdfs created within the last 90 days with infowarrior in the name but not > created by acrobat? No problem... Pretty powerful stuff, just google away to > check out the possibilities: http://tinyurl.com/cgh5z > > 6. for what it's worth, the sharing prefs pane > firewall > advanced options > are a great concept (block udp, firewall logging, and stealth mode); I would > love to *really* know how well the stealth mode works... > > 7. finally safari; I find it peppier but apple still hasn't managed to deal > with its memory leak/runaway process issue, so I still find myself having to > periodically quit and restart it. Thankfully safari stand ( > http://tinyurl.com/a7oqy ) helps with the saving and restoring of tabsets > for those refreshes... > > Hope that wasn't too long winded for you all... :) > From: Denise Caruso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:54:58 -0700 > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Fwd: [IP] RFI: MacOSX Tiger 10.4 Opinions/Feedback > > rick (and dave) - this is my experience with tiger, too. i admit to > a little bit of a 'grrr' and not the kind they'd hoped for, i think. > right after i installed it i thought something was terribly wrong > with my machine. i haven't hacked around much on it yet, i just > installed a couple of days ago, but was getting the beach ball a LOT, > which makes me very nervous. one mac-hack friend said it may have > been because tiger was still trying to archive everything, and that i > should let it run without closing the lid for a day. it's been > relatively OK since then except when i try to print, which generally > makes me think i'm at the beach again, or launch a new app, which > takes for-evah. for $150 i admit i was kind of hoping for a > performance improvement. > > i could easily live without the widgets, since i have to actually go > to them and use them (shouldn't they just be on the desktop? or in > the menu bar?) unlike this new widget, the dictionary in sherlock > was great - you could just keep it open all the time and toggle to it > without having to dark everything else you were doing. and what good > is a countdown calendar if you can only see it when you actually go > to look at it? man, i need my reminders to be a lot more in my face > than THAT. > > i do think spotlight does a better job than sherlock for finding > files -- i couldn't find things i KNEW were there with sherlock, the > little bastid -- but one bizarre thing with spotlight is that you > can't add folders for it to index (or at least i couldn't easily > figure out how to). this is a pain in the ass for me, as i still use > eudora (i know, i know) and all my email is archived in the system > folder -- in the system *9* system folder, no less (i know, i KNOW) > -- which makes it unsearchable. at least with sherlock you could add > the folder no matter where it was. even if it couldn't find it once > you added it. hee. > > oh, and thanks for the heads up about the rev to safari -- i hadn't > checked it out. i do a lot of research and if they hadn't added that > feature which includes the URL on the doc/PDF page i would have truly > committed hari kiri. thank god!! i can't tell you how much time i > spent over the past three years until firefox came out, cutting and > pasting URLs into exploder because i couldn't stand to browse in it, > but i needed to make PDFs or documents that i could put into a > bibliography, which requires an access date as well as the URL that > was accurate at the time. i sent them countless emails begging them > to fix it, as i'm sure millions of other researchers did as well. > > that's the sum of my very brief experience so far, fwiw. 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