gizmodo.com — Somewhere between 2006 and today, I stopped considering Apple an underdog. And I'm not just talking about their iPod numbers nor am I talking about their no-where-close to Windows marketshare. I mean, screw marketshare, really: Does Porsche outsell Honda?
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j1w2d34Dec 22, 2007
You can only run Mac OS on Apple hardware.
witteDec 23, 2007
Loading...... I realize it's not Apple's fault that Gizmodo is such a bloated, out-of-date website, but since I'm sort of on the topic, I have to ask -- does anybody else think Mac OS X is SLOW? After using the latest and greatest Macs exclusively for 8 years now, I agree Macs are very intuitive. Getting a Mac to function the way you need it to at any given moment is pricelessly easy. Sharing for example, very simple. And iLife is great too.BUT MY GOD, Mac OS X is slow! Menus, windows, and buttons on Macs HAVE NOT been programmed for efficiency, with professional users in mind. Menus, windows, and buttons on my 2.6 GHz Celeron running Windows XP with just 256 MB of ram are NOTICEABLY more responsive than those in OS X on my dual-core MacBook Pro with 2 GB of ram. It's indisputable. Windows and panes on my Macs often lag behind the cursor, fail for a moment, don't move with the cursor or drag smoothly, lag-to-scroll, or alas half the time just stall with this "Beachball of death". And buttons on Mac dialog boxes and windows sometimes have to be clicked TWICE! Even after the button animated its click action! What's more, menus don't work correctly either yet. Sometimes you can count two or three seconds before a Mac OS X menu appears after being called. As a pro user, I'm finding that as I become quicker, OS X's laggy interface is becoming more and more intolerable. Sometimes I actually must tilt my chair back and wait, filled with silent rage, other times it's just a matter of seconds, but the frustration sticks with me. I can see that a noticeable portion of of my day is wasted, spent waiting for my $2600 Mac to catch up to various commands. My GOD, this is 2008! We are in the age of the dual-core intel! The age of the sea otter! What a disgrace!And the frustrating thing is, I KNOW other people think Mac OS X to be slow. Other folks I know have admitted that Mac OS X is slow. And I know Apple KNOWS how miserably SLOW Mac OS X is, because I can see they have been trying desperately to fix it for eight years, because it's been slowly improving, especially with Leopard.But I've had enough. I am sadly convinced this amazing OS can no longer keep up with me. Spotlight in Tiger summed it up perfectly: SLOW to the point I couldn't even use it. Apple, f** off -- your OS is asking TOO MUCH of my machine! I need my machine to pay attention to ME, not you! You need to butt out! Sometime in January, I will switch to Windows XP at work. And as time goes by, I expect to spend a greater and greater amount of my time in Windows, because XP's windows, menus and buttons behave responsively. In Windows XP, changing focus happens instantly. On a Mac, you can WATCH IT HAPPEN.To me, responsive windows, menus, and buttons are BY FAR more important than iPhoto, ITunes, and 24-bit gradients and icons, end all the fine touches that make a Mac beautiful. Plus, my Mac seizes almost daily, so Windows XP seizures won't be an issue. I'll stick with my Mac OS X at home, but at work, it's over for Mac OS X ---- I'm tired of cursing and sighing all day long as this operating system stalls and sputters its way through my workload. I HAVE TO SWITCH to UGLY XP! Apple, you are making me do this! I have no choice!Ugly is ugly, but if turns out that ugly gives me peace of mind and gets me home before dark, I'm sticking with ugly.
tupperbacharachDec 23, 2007
With an Apple computer, all options are determined by fearless leader Jobs.
estvirDec 23, 2007
Are you illiterate?
eedesignerDec 24, 2007
When you used the term Porch vs Honda, did you not mean Porsche vs Yugo? After all, we're talking Microsoft here...folks who would be long in the trashbin if they produced hardware (which actually has to be reliable).
virguleDec 26, 2007
I mostly agree. OS X can be so sluggish at times it seam the damn thing is laughing at us and loading times can be abysmal to say the least. It want RAM. More than what you have, anyway. There is no such thing as a snappy "click BANG" interface. Its a must have. Period. Sluggish, slow and unresponsive interfaces lead to great frustrations and anger issues. There is no excuses for the 'slug' with today's gigahertz and gigaram and gigadrives with gigapowers..
strangewillDec 26, 2007
@j1w2d34:No, you can run OSX on PC hardware. They've actually hacked OSX and removed the hardware locks Apple put on it, and it runs perfectly fine on a PC.