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- J4c0b, on 10/12/2007, -19/+43if you dont care then why did you post???
- lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -11/+31Salesman: These are speed holes. They make the car go faster.
Homer: Oh, yeah. Speed holes! - 16x9, on 10/12/2007, -12/+32You know, davdav, you really don't have to tell us which submissions you AREN'T interested in. After all, by definition, simply not clicking the "Digg" button is enough to tell everyone that you aren't interested.
Or are you one of those jerks who thinks that Digg is set up just for them and that any submitted stories that aren't of interested to you are somehow an attack on just how important you truly are? - 16x9, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23It wasn't intended for publication in Reader's Digest.
- sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23Obviously you have never used OS X. The only way it could run "drag ass" slow is if you installed a pooload of spyware and adware on it. Oh wait, you can't. you're a moron. thats like saying "being on the moon sucks." You just can't do it because you've never experienced it, or if you did once, were too stubborn to give it a chance, and it was destined to fail no matter what.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12"I mean, seriously--defragmentation of the filesystem in the background and caching of executable data?"
Windows XP doesn't auto-defragment files during file operations like OS X does. Vista will, so I hear.
Also, HFS+ is better at not fragmenting compared to NTFS. As an aside, it's also nice that HFS+ can just change an inode pointer to move a file, so you can move, copy, and trash files that are undergoing a file operation. That includes applications, which you can freely move around even as they're running. When you're used to the Windows world where you get the "DING!" error message telling you the file is "currently in use," it's like a religious experience when you can freely move the iTunes app all over the place while you're listening to music. I typically start a large file copying to a detachable drive, and just immediately trash the source file. When the copy dialog finishes, I empty the trash since the source file's already in there. It's one of the reasons I'm faster on OS X and why it feels like it gets out of my way.
It's all the little things that make OS X so enjoyable. - lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -22/+29I, for one, can still appreciate the occasional, unexpected and uncalled for "your mom" dis. Heres to you!
- xGrill, on 10/12/2007, -37/+44your mom was posted in June 2004
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I wasn't talking about NTFS, I was talking about JFS and XFS. You want to know why OSX gets such a poor Unixbench score? File IO.
- pabster, on 10/12/2007, -10/+17LOL
HFS+ is a superior file system to NTFS.
Move along FUD spreader. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14This is really old. It was Slashdotted years ago. It's an interesting read, yes, but it's very old and not current news. In fact, some of it might be outdated.
- toveling, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9The article (which I know is old, yada yada) lists prebinding as a good idea, but in general it isn't considered a good trait of os x these days. OS X used to load programs very slowly, so prebinding was added to help with this. However, if one program adds its prebinding table to the system, all of the other applications using prebinding have a chance that all of their addresses will be screwed up. Nowadays OS X handles launching programs fine, and prebinding is rarely needed.
Prebinding is the reason when you're installing a program on OS X you get the nice 'optimizing system preformance' message at the end of the install. - Toshibi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I dont even run a Mac nor do I program but this is what the steps do:
1) Loads all the booting stuff to RAM and grades it on usage, so it can get to it faster.
2) Caches all the kernel extensions: Puts them in faster memory so it can find them quicker.
3) Puts files that are used often in a faster access zone on the hard drive.
4) Stores how the files in virtual memory are used in RAM so it optimizes how to handle them.
5) On The fly Defrag...what is there to explain. Files that aren't all over the drive are easier to access.
6) The file dependancies are set before hand so the OS doesn't have to go looking for them.
7) Stuff for developers...makes their lives easier and allows them to make things distributed or runs needed stuff in the background...etc.
8) Apple's rules for programmers help them make their programs faster and more responsive.
9) If you turn it off by mistake it will repair itself fast.
10) It keeps stuff awake even while it's sleeping.
That's it. But, it does explain why you need so much RAM with these systems. - iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9they left off the #1 reason, BSD. OSX is built upon BSD, nuff said.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14You don't have to understand it, just know that it's better for you :-)
- tadunne, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6-103 digg so far.. I like digg! I can vote trolls out of existence!
- DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'd expect any modern operating system to have these optimizations.
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think you would love the lack of hibernate on a PowerBook. Just close the lid, off to the next class, open it up and you're computing in about 2 seconds. A lot less time than it takes to load a hibernated copy of XP from the disk.
- tadunne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nice comparission on Filesystems here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems - panique, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Yeah this is as old as Tiger. Report as OLD NEWS
- sspooner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, #10 is not true anymore. The newer powerbooks, and indeed my macbook pro do indeed hibernate to disk.
One can "sleep" in the regular way by closing the lid. Remove the battery (for a very long period of time) and when you switch back on you'll see it resume from disk.
The only issue is that on my MBP it takes 2 gigs of disk space to save to disk, obviously. - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/25/147228&from=rss
Years Ago? - try Marcg 25th 2006 - staed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well.. http://www.digg.com/apple/Apple_MacBook_Pro_fastest_Windows_XP_notebook_
- hashkaran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2did you even have remote chance of looking at OS X from far?
If not, then head down to a nearest Apple store and see it for self and then make your comments. - veritech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Anybody who has ever used OSX on a G3 with 256mb of ram, should know, that it's far from slow. Compare it with a windows pc of similar age, and configuration and your jaw will drop. It's highly optimized for each platform.
- wilymon, on 10/12/2007, -8/+10dude, youre just asking for negative diggs.... hmmm... i might be too with this comment.
- striker1211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+210. Instant-on
OoOoO, isn't that called S3 or suspend to ram... way to go apple, you innovative bastards. - 4answer2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6This article is dated 6/3/04
- iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>For example, if you login (via SSH, say) from one PowerBook to another, and both of them go to >sleep, your login should stay alive within the constraints of the protocols.
This did not work for me, and I guess I see why now. (my comment above got buried by apple-humpers) - tombomb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another example of Ignorance running rampant. Mac OS is better than windows because Windows is a memory hog.
- StephnDolenc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1very creative description
- mikm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That article is inaccurate. Basically, it says that the MacBook Pro is the fastest laptop with certain specs. There ARE faster laptops.
- mrmt32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Doesn't any one here know that most modern pcs can go into s3 sleep also (turning everything off except memory so the computer instantly powers on after). Normaly you just have to enable it in the bios (normaly called sleep mode or similar). On my laptop it was already enabled.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2how come nobody noticed how funny davdav's comment was :D
- yash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We dont care about, what you dont care, davdav.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Becasue digg is full of humourless losers i think
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As a PowerBook user, I do appreciate how fast OS X comes back from sleep. Since my PC is a desktop machine and I tend not to put it to sleep, I can't really compare the two. Hibernation doesn't seem necessary unless you're about to lose battery life, and I believe OS X automatically hibernates if that's the case.
The sleep/hibernate issue aside, this article is pretty interesting and informative. The clustering and on-the-fly defragmentation are very noticable to me as a routine user, since hard drive access never drags even after very heavy use. Dugg. - torh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Interesting. This story was slash-dotted a few years ago. Still, good read.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not exactly. The kernel is nach, which is a contletely ditherent aninal than the DSD kernel. DSD is tulled in to create a userland enthironnent sinilar to what you would extect on sonething like ThreeDSD.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6I take that as a compliment (except for the mum part). Using OS X is like receiving a great, non-stop blowjob.
- azoq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0While some of this seems legit, it does concern me that the author implies that not having a hibernate function is a good thing. As a college student, I'm constantly running from class to class with my laptop - I love the ability to hibernate, especially if I need to be able to use my computer for long periods of time. I'd rather sacrifice boot time than need to carry around my power cord.
- cwedl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Though I didn't understand some of the article (Too techinical for me) any improvements to the operating that I use and love eachday is a welcome!
- dhcmrlchtdj, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2ah ha, that makes sense. always wondered what 'optimizing...' was doing.
- iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2>For example, if you login (via SSH, say) from one PowerBook to another, and both of them go to >sleep, your login should stay alive within the constraints of the protocols.
This did not work for me, anyone else have different outcome? - Agret, on 10/12/2007, -12/+8echosierratwo this is terribly out of date, old news.
- americanXP, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Thanks for the break down.
~ donte - LordVoldemort, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2"opine"
+digg - buttonmasher, on 10/12/2007, -13/+9the key word in lucas88's post is "occasional".
Every once in a while is funny. - jnmlmz, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4Shouldn't moving to Intel be No. 1?
- jackraz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Listen guys, Apple makes great looking computers... But if you want performance then buy a PC instead. It's that simple
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