It's our beloved Aqua and Quartz that use up the processor, not Mach (the kernel). Mind you, Mach doesn't help the situation, even though it is an elegant solution. In other words, I'd think that unless the reviewer was playing with the Dock, or window resizing while running his tests, it's probably just a case of cheaper, faster hardware.
Of course I'm so taken with OS X, that I doubt that I'll ever go back to Windows (X11 is another matter).
Word 'round the campfire is that Apple may be releasing a tablet computer sometime in the not-so-distant future. That'd mean that there wouldn't have to be a separate OS / codebase (ala Windows CE) for the new hardware.
Yeah, and I won't be getting Quartz Extreme on my TiBook 667 that I bought a manth ago either. But really, so what? QE capability isn't going to be a *requirement* for running OSX 10.2, and it *should* run faster anyway as 10.2 will probably be better optimized due to use of GCC 3. Sure, we won't get to use the latest and greatest technology, but then we're not using the latest and greatest hardware either.
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It's our beloved Aqua and Quartz that use up the processor, not Mach (the kernel). Mind you, Mach doesn't help the situation, even though it is an elegant solution. In other words, I'd think that unless the reviewer was playing with the Dock, or window resizing while running his tests, it's probably just a case of cheaper, faster hardware.
Of course I'm so taken with OS X, that I doubt that I'll ever go back to Windows (X11 is another matter).
Word 'round the campfire is that Apple may be releasing a tablet computer sometime in the not-so-distant future. That'd mean that there wouldn't have to be a separate OS / codebase (ala Windows CE) for the new hardware.
Yeah, and I won't be getting Quartz Extreme on my TiBook 667 that I bought a manth ago either. But really, so what? QE capability isn't going to be a *requirement* for running OSX 10.2, and it *should* run faster anyway as 10.2 will probably be better optimized due to use of GCC 3. Sure, we won't get to use the latest and greatest technology, but then we're not using the latest and greatest hardware either.