<strong>Having fonts in your OS 9 System Folder can kill performance a bit. I had something like 250 in there before I nixed OS 9 and shoved them all in my user fonts folder. Before it took 45 seconds (!) to get the font panel up in Cocoa apps, now it takes less than five.
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I would say going from 45 seconds to 5 seconds is more than a bit of a performance increase. That's a substantial increase.
aksoldotna: did you even read this thread or are you just trolling? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
The blame here lies mostly with Adobe and third parties, NOT Apple. The apps you named (Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand) are in their FIRST release for Mac OS X. It takes *time* to completely optimize 15-year-old code for a brand new operating system and new set of APIs.
If you can't understand that simple point, I pity you.
<strong>aksoldotna: did you even read this thread or are you just trolling? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
The blame here lies mostly with Adobe and third parties, NOT Apple. The apps you named (Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand) are in their FIRST release for Mac OS X. It takes *time* to completely optimize 15-year-old code for a brand new operating system and new set of APIs.
If you can't understand that simple point, I pity you.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Of course I have read this thread---I started it! Apple sells the user an environment to work in which is now slower, and more expensive. To make matters worse the carbonized apps are slower and you have pay to experience this decreased performance.
HEELLOOO? How is Apple going to sell this experience to the customer----until such a time as they start selling hardware that has the kind of performance that will hide this speed decrease?
Once again you missed brads point. IF you ask me OS X runs fine... Its slower on older computers, yeah, If you want a modern operating system you need to have modern hardware its as simple as that.
The apps we are talking about here are big name apps. Yes its a problem, BUT the users using these apps in most cases can wait till another release where things are more optimized.
If you run say Dreamweaver, BBedit, Photoshop your usual iApps etc. OS X runs plenty fast. Add that to a dual processor machine, witch adds outstanding multitasking might i add, and your good to go.
<strong>Once again you missed brads point. IF you ask me OS X runs fine... Its slower on older computers, yeah, If you want a modern operating system you need to have modern hardware its as simple as that.
The apps we are talking about here are big name apps. Yes its a problem, BUT the users using these apps in most cases can wait till another release where things are more optimized.
If you run say Dreamweaver, BBedit, Photoshop your usual iApps etc. OS X runs plenty fast. Add that to a dual processor machine, witch adds outstanding multitasking might i add, and your good to go.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I have a DP 1Ghz machine---maybe I'm not being clear.
Apple has to sell its existing base a slower, more expensive upgrade path until the hardware gets dramtically faster---how is it going to do this?
"Here, buy PS7 so you can switch over to OSX and run slower...."
Huh???
I got suckered into buying FH10 (AI10 was okay---it has scripting support) and I'll be DAMNED if I get suckered again. This means Quark is in for an uphill battle---and every one else who would otherwise be enjoying a fairly painless, routine upgrade cycle.
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<strong>Having fonts in your OS 9 System Folder can kill performance a bit. I had something like 250 in there before I nixed OS 9 and shoved them all in my user fonts folder. Before it took 45 seconds (!) to get the font panel up in Cocoa apps, now it takes less than five.
</strong><hr></blockquote>
I would say going from 45 seconds to 5 seconds is more than a bit of a performance increase. That's a substantial increase.
How are they going to sell this swill until we get hardware that can overpower OSX?
The blame here lies mostly with Adobe and third parties, NOT Apple. The apps you named (Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand) are in their FIRST release for Mac OS X. It takes *time* to completely optimize 15-year-old code for a brand new operating system and new set of APIs.
If you can't understand that simple point, I pity you.
<strong>aksoldotna: did you even read this thread or are you just trolling? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
The blame here lies mostly with Adobe and third parties, NOT Apple. The apps you named (Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand) are in their FIRST release for Mac OS X. It takes *time* to completely optimize 15-year-old code for a brand new operating system and new set of APIs.
If you can't understand that simple point, I pity you.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Of course I have read this thread---I started it! Apple sells the user an environment to work in which is now slower, and more expensive. To make matters worse the carbonized apps are slower and you have pay to experience this decreased performance.
HEELLOOO? How is Apple going to sell this experience to the customer----until such a time as they start selling hardware that has the kind of performance that will hide this speed decrease?
I think you are missing the point.
The apps we are talking about here are big name apps. Yes its a problem, BUT the users using these apps in most cases can wait till another release where things are more optimized.
If you run say Dreamweaver, BBedit, Photoshop your usual iApps etc. OS X runs plenty fast. Add that to a dual processor machine, witch adds outstanding multitasking might i add, and your good to go.
<strong>Once again you missed brads point. IF you ask me OS X runs fine... Its slower on older computers, yeah, If you want a modern operating system you need to have modern hardware its as simple as that.
The apps we are talking about here are big name apps. Yes its a problem, BUT the users using these apps in most cases can wait till another release where things are more optimized.
If you run say Dreamweaver, BBedit, Photoshop your usual iApps etc. OS X runs plenty fast. Add that to a dual processor machine, witch adds outstanding multitasking might i add, and your good to go.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I have a DP 1Ghz machine---maybe I'm not being clear.
Apple has to sell its existing base a slower, more expensive upgrade path until the hardware gets dramtically faster---how is it going to do this?
"Here, buy PS7 so you can switch over to OSX and run slower...."
Huh???
I got suckered into buying FH10 (AI10 was okay---it has scripting support) and I'll be DAMNED if I get suckered again. This means Quark is in for an uphill battle---and every one else who would otherwise be enjoying a fairly painless, routine upgrade cycle.