May 29, 2006 @ 12:32
Mini Mac Mini Rant
I’ve had my little Mac Mini for a couple of months now and whilst I love its slender form, its quiet sound and glorious OS X, I am struggling not to throw it in the trash. Why would I do such a thing? Its too damn slow.
Having used high-spec PCs all the time I was prepared to trade some difference in performance for the joy of returning to OS X, and all the other Mac goodness. But its hard to enjoy when it taks so long to get to it. I have Thunderbird and Firefox running all the time, switching from one to the other takes 20 to 90 seconds, just to bring the window to focus. Lord help me if I have anything else running at the same time
I had some photos to resize yesterday. It was such an ordeal waiting for the photo editing software to launch that it was quickler to email me the pictures, start my business PC, get the mail, edit them in Photoshop Elements, upload them to the walmart photo centre for printing and shut the PC down. When the photo software finally loaded, it didn’t even have a resize option(!). I thought the Mac was supposed to be good for media manipulation.
I shall try upgrading the memory to a Gb and see how much that helps. If I don’t see much improvement I may be going back to Windoze for my daily chores.
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Posted by Joshua
May 29, 2006 @ 18:50
Firefox (and to a lesser extent Tbird) is a complete dog in OSX. That’s the way it’s always been, probably the way it will always be. Camino isn’t as bad, but still not as fast as Safari, considering it’s basically a knockoff of Safari built on Gecko instead of Webkit (or Web Kit, depending on which side of the debate you follow.) Safari isn’t as extensible as Firefox, but there are still some neat add-ons out there that make it awesome enough for me.
Posted by Joshua
May 29, 2006 @ 18:51
I should add that I totally dig the new theme.
Posted by guapacha
May 30, 2006 @ 12:39
I tried Safari from the get go but couldn’t get a handle on the short keys, found Firefox more intuitive with the PC keyboard. But I’ll give it another go, maybe that and the memory will satisfy my need for speed.
I wish I could take credit for the theme, but I needed something in honour of the big tourney to come.
Posted by Joshua
May 30, 2006 @ 15:30
There’s a big tourney coming up?
Hehe.
Yeah, I admit that Shift+Cmd+] is a bit of a pain in the ass for tab switching.