Apple Design Award Winners Announced

EccentricAnomaly writes "Apple has announced the winners of this year's Apple Design Awards. And the winners are: Best New Mac OS X Product: Toon Boom; Most Innovative Mac OS X Product: Watson; Best Mac OS X User Experience and Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption: OmniGraffle; Best Mac OS X Open Source port: TeXShop; and Best Mac OS X Student Product: MacJournal." The last one appears to be down, due to "excessive bandwidth consumption." Maybe the Apple Design Awards people should've gotten together with the Apple iTools HomePage people.

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Newbie OSX user...

[Teancom]

and I really don't know where the "correct" place is to ask for help, so I'll do it here :-) It's not like there is a plethora of posts crowding this out...

Very simply: why does Mail.app take so freaking long to bring up the menu? I'm talking 30-45 seconds, from when I click on it and when I get the menu up. After the first time, it (usually) goes much quicker. No other app has this problem. They all take "normal" (sub-1sec) times. I'm using IMAP, if that matters. Please help, as it's rendering Mail almost useless to me, and I'm about to revert to just mutt (which kinda defeats the purpose of using the Lickable UI(tm)).

Thanks :-)

Re:Newbie OSX user...

[Teancom]

The menu bar, at the top. I.e., click on any of them (message, mailbox, format, etc), and it take 30-45 seconds before the menu "dropdown" appears. Sorry about that, I guess I should have been more clear :-)

On a slightly OT note, I'm running OSX on an original (blueberry) ibook, upgraded to 160Megs of RAM (that's a G3 300mhz) and haven't seen the perfomance issues that other people do. In fact, the Mail.app menu problem is the only speed-related thing I have to complain about, and I doubt that it is related to my processor at all (i.e., it's a config thing, or something). I'm *very* impressed! My wife's Quicken and my shell, co-existing *natively* on the same machine! w00t ;-)