Comment Yes, it is. (Score 1) 1229
I do find OS X to be slow. Regardless of any possible technologies, bugs or wrong approaches causing this, the end user experience is still that various everyday tasks are simply very un-snappy.
Examples.
1) Mail.app, even in 10.2, simply loves to hang. This can be either during "writing to index" or while its waiting for a network response that will never be there.
2) Many of the OS's pulldown menus for some reason need to access your drive. This can be either to load an icon situated in one of the menu items, or maybe even for no reason. If any of the drives accessed are currently sleeping, it can take up to five seconds for the dropdown to even appear.
3) Web browsing is slow. Not only the rendering (interpreting and displaying the downloaded source) is sluggish, but also scrolling and resizing. Do this on a PC after a days use of OS X and you're likely to raise an eyebrow. I know Chimera is a relatively fast browser and IE can be pretty snappy also. But not compared to any PC in the current similar pricerange.
4) The Finder is still slow. Yes, it may be a lot faster than in 10.1 and especially 10.2, but it is still not even close to snappy.
Overall, 10.2 has been the first version of OS X that is getting somewhere performancewise. Try using a 10.1 box and you'll cry. However, before OS X can be recommended to anyone who has to rely on performance and reliability, I think we're way beyond 10.3.
These, by the way, are the experiences of someone using a G3/400 Yosemitebox w/ 384 MB of RAM. At work I use a G4/700 TFT iMac. The same issues above apply to the latter, only less drastically.
Examples.
1) Mail.app, even in 10.2, simply loves to hang. This can be either during "writing to index" or while its waiting for a network response that will never be there.
2) Many of the OS's pulldown menus for some reason need to access your drive. This can be either to load an icon situated in one of the menu items, or maybe even for no reason. If any of the drives accessed are currently sleeping, it can take up to five seconds for the dropdown to even appear.
3) Web browsing is slow. Not only the rendering (interpreting and displaying the downloaded source) is sluggish, but also scrolling and resizing. Do this on a PC after a days use of OS X and you're likely to raise an eyebrow. I know Chimera is a relatively fast browser and IE can be pretty snappy also. But not compared to any PC in the current similar pricerange.
4) The Finder is still slow. Yes, it may be a lot faster than in 10.1 and especially 10.2, but it is still not even close to snappy.
Overall, 10.2 has been the first version of OS X that is getting somewhere performancewise. Try using a 10.1 box and you'll cry. However, before OS X can be recommended to anyone who has to rely on performance and reliability, I think we're way beyond 10.3.
These, by the way, are the experiences of someone using a G3/400 Yosemitebox w/ 384 MB of RAM. At work I use a G4/700 TFT iMac. The same issues above apply to the latter, only less drastically.
