I have my complaints, it's still a little stiff, but I'm really pretty happy. As it stands, the OS X UI on this machine is reasonably fast, and after a month or so I have not felt a burning desire to install Windows or Linux on it. When the new Macbook Pros came out, I bought one because as an Intel box that could run Linux and Windows, I had less risk. This plus the constant beachballs that basically locked the machine until whatever it decided to do finished, sealed it's fate. In comparison to OS9, the OS X UI is like molasses. Now, I don't know if you were a Mac user before OS X, but OS9 beats the pants off OS X in general UI responsiveness. Long story short, I am not a normal switcher. My goal for getting a Mac was 1) Windows is insecure 2) OS X is Unix and 3) Many popular apps like Quicken are on Mac (this made it better than Linux, for example.) What I found was that the couple of apps I thought I needed ran faster on my Windows laptop, so I might as well run Linux on an x86 machine where at least Flash worked in Firefox. I ended up wiping OS X and installing Gentoo Linux, and eventually giving it to my parents. Windows drag and resize slower, repaint slower, scrollpanes scroll WAY slower, and that stupid beach ball.I was getting interrupted with annoying frequency in Safari, many other apps such as iPhoto as well. Here's the deal though, I switched from Linux to OS X, and compared to Linux, OS X is just plain sluggish. I never imported a majority of my photos into iPhoto simply because I figured out pretty quick that I didn't want to use it. Opening photos took a couple of seconds, and often got me the beach ball. I found iPhoto's interface generally sluggish. I had the 1.2Ghz G4 model with 512 MB of RAM. ![]() You might actually have to *gasp* pay for good software that does what you want it to do. It's currently in public beta (you have been warned that it's beta software) so don't expect it to be free after the beta period is over and the software expires. Obviously there are exceptions, Picasa being the obvious one.įor those looking for a free (for the time being) alternative to iPhoto, check out Adobe Lightroom. This can be said for most of Apple's software - it does the 80% of what everyone wants extremely well, whereas I find most Windows software does 95% of what everyone wants but does an acceptable job of it. Infinitely-configurable software increases complexity for the user and the software. Part of the simplicity of iPhoto is that it's not complicated, it's not infinitely-configurable. If I add my images to its library, why would I need to keep a duplicate set in a completely different structure? iPhoto's goal is to take over the task of organizing your photos so you don't have to do it. I don't need to organize my photos myself, the software does it for you. Just some thoughts on earlier posts about iPhoto re-organizing people's image organization into junk - I agree that iPhoto should be more like iTunes in allowing you to add files to the library without necessarily adding it to it's own internally-maintained structure, but the reason why a lot of people love iPhoto is that it takes that level of maintenance out of the equation. So far with the "freeware" photo utilities I've seen for the Mac, many of them are cute to sort through stuff I save from the web - but not a single one is good enough to handle my collection of digital photos. Even with iPhoto '06 and turning the option on for it to make aliases, once it got to my Paris pictures it just bogged down, making folders of thousands of aliases - why not just behave like Picasa? It just seems like way too much work to accomplish something rather simple.Īnyhow, iPhoto is too slow, too un-configurable with an absurd amount of data duplication for the photos themselves and I would pay for Picasa, say $30. I won't use iPhoto at all because it's super-aggressive and not really configurable to allow the behavior that I prefer, using folders to organize my photos. Picasa doesn't do that and that's why I use Picasa on my Dell. I manage a huge pile of multimegabyte digital pictures and iPhoto wanted to duplicate all of my files turning my "organized by folder" design into junk. It sits next to my big Dell desktop at home - and I do almost everything on my Mac, except for City of Heroes (a game) and Picasa. ![]() I recently bought a Mac Mini with the Intel Core Duo.
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