[G5] Lack of Posts

[Zane H. Healy]

At 2:52 PM -0800 1/4/06, Philip J Robar wrote:
>On Jan 4, 2006, at 8:51 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>>Well, my basic thought on the subject isn't very constructive, and 
>>that is that Memory Management on Mac OS X *SUCKS*!
>
>Agreed on both counts. I've seen articles talking about how poorly 
>OS X handles memory and other fundamental system management tasks. 
>For instance, if I recall correctly, anandtech.com compared OS X and 
>Linux on the same Mac and found Linux to be significantly faster. 
>While the tests had their problems, I think they clearly showed that 
>the OS X folks have some work to do.

I think it was anandtech.com that did that, it was a rather 
interesting and disturbing article.  I've a bad feeling that the 
switch to Intel is going to be rather embarrassing for Mac OS X, 
things won't be looking good for Apple if Windows XP blows them away 
on the exact same hardware.  Don't take that the wrong way, as I 
actually am looking forwards to Mac's running on Intel CPU's, I just 
think it's going to strip the facade that Apple has been hiding 
rotten performance behind away.

As for fundamental system management tasks, you don't want to get me 
started on NetInfo!

At the same time, I will admit that some of the memory problems might 
be due to some of the applications, but when one of those 
applications is iPhoto...

>Yup, Safari is a pig, to the point that I have stopped using it in 
>favor of Firefox and maybe Opera. Helping me make the switch was the 
>fact that Safari doesn't seen to handle AJAX enabled sites at all - 
>at least the one that I visit daily.

What is helping me to start using Firefox on Mac OS X (I already use 
it on Linux at work), is that Safari keeps crashing when I try to 
access pages on Wired.com.

		Zane


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