Re: MacOS
- From: "Dave Jewell" <Dave.Jewell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:03:03 -0000
"Richard Bayarri Bartual" <rbb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The Mac starts up into a usable state rather more quickly than XP, but
that's probably due to various third-party bits and bobs such as AV
software that (currently) aren't necessary on OS X.
With OSX I always use the "Sleep" feature because it happens almost
instantly. Click "Sleep" from the Finder menu and -- bang -- the machine is
off and I can walk away. Not quite what I experience with XP. :-)
Windows XP requires less RAM than OS X (10.4) to work well. Apple
traditionally supply far too little RAM as standard, and this tends to
give people the impression that the OS is far slower than is really
the case.
Yes - I'll agree with that. I wouldn't want to use OSX with less than 1Gig
of RAM. I have 2Gigs on my iMac. But OTOH, XP is pretty useless these days
without 1Gig as well, at least from a developers point of view.
File searches using Spotlight are massively faster than XP's Search,
but Spotlight has less options.
Some folks dispense with the Dock altogether and use Spotlight to launch
apps. Personally, I'd miss the Dock :- I like a little eye-candy in my
life. ;-)
Dave
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