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Mac OS X Slow for Web Browsing?
Atryn writes "Wired News has reportedly confirmed user performance complaints in their own tests. From the article: 'That was a conscious decision Apple made,' Mac MSIE project manager Jimmy Grewal said. 'They optimized for user experience rather than raw performance.'" My hunch is that you can take care of many Mac OS X performance issues by logging in as user ">console" ...
I noticed a link to Slashdot in that Wired article. Wouldn't it be ironic if a bunch of Wired readers brought Slashdot to its knees?
If it's Unixlike does that mean there is a port of the X Window System?
yes. Rooted and rootless.
You could just get rid of that whole icky Aqua nonsense and run an X server with something nice and minimal like icewm.
Yep. This must be slashdot.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
...Lynx screams on my TiBook!
A buddhist walks up to a hot dog stand and says ``Make me one with everything.''
What is your roommate doing? Ripping out PCI cards while the machine is running? Clearly this guy has some kind of hardware problem because I have three machines running XP and the one thing they almost never do is crash. Clearly your roommate needs to take his machine back to the store or -- if he built it himself -- learn how to do it properly.
(Seriously) not trying to troll here, but an XP machine in proper working order shouldn't crash twice a day. Did he forget to attach the heat sink? Did he drool some hummus onto the motherboard? Does he have back issues of Gent piled up on the cooling vent? Something is clearly wrong with that machine.
I beg to differ. The Mach 3 i use has a revolutionary vm called triple-blade shaving system. Try it yourself.
/Pedro
I have never meet someone that only web surf besides corporate executives (dig). But I guess if that is your only reason for using a computer, my statement would be incorrect. Most people I know do more than click links. They are using digital cameras, scanners, video cameras, printers, mp3 players, web cams, etc. Mac OS X does a great job of making those items easy to connect and interface with the Mac. Its what my Dad and I gave my mother so she would stop calling me and let him sleep at night about the expletivedeleted, expletivedeleted, expletivedeleted, expletivedeleted, expletivedeleted, expletivedeleted, expletivedeleted, expletivedeleted, expletivedeleted Windows computer. My mother tends to curse like a sailor when she can't get the computer to do what she wants.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
1. Because my colleague's windows laptop offers no even marginally convenient way to switch between two different 128-bit encrypted wireless networks, he can play Minesweeper on his laptop really fast in our lab, while I am forced to get work done wirelessly after the flip of a switch (in Mac OS X it's just a single menu selection to switch locations which can have entirely different settings, types and sets of connections). Play vs. Work? It's a no brainer - Windows wins this round.
2. My windows colleague gets lots of face-to-face quality time with tech support staff. My PowerBook means no chat time with Bob & Timmy, Microsoft-trained support wizards for rooms 213b *and* c, and that means, yet again, I have to work. Good conversation vs. Work? Windows takes this round easily as well.
3. My windows colleague doesn't have to manually surf for porn, rather, some people in Uzbekistan put child porn on his system for him. What a time saver! Windows wins again.
4. Blue is a pretty color. This ones close, but Windows squeaks it out.
The final tally is 4 in favor of Windows and none for lowly OS X. How sad.
--- What?
It'll be called OS-XI, pronounced by the faithful as "Oh-Sexy" and the non believers as "gross-icky".
Hope that helps.
Good interface? Did I miss a checkbox or something when I intsalled OS X?