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To: Swordmaker

Cool. BTW, I have found one thing wrong with OS X so far. It has the same problem XP does when the connection to a network drive gets dropped. I think it’s constantly retrying and failing. It would be better if it just quit, or spun the retries off onto another thread. As it is Finder is useless for a minute or so after that happens, although all open apps work fine.

Otherwise, it’s still going awesomely. I’m crunching a three-hour DVD with iDVD and a video file right now (VisualHub is nice, well worth the price) at the same time (I have my reasons). The system is still perfectly responsive for everything else, almost like I don’t have two separate apps wanting 100% of my CPU.

One interesting UI observation. I’ve been using Windows for almost 20 years now, and have gotten very used to the control buttons on the right of the title bar over that time. I still use Windows at work more than I use the Mac at home. That’s a LOT of motor memory for OS X to overcome.

But whenever I’m on Windows I find myself looking to the left on the title bar for the minimize button, and never find myself looking to the right on the Mac. I guess it’s the more natural location.


14 posted on 10/02/2007 8:54:04 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
Cool. BTW, I have found one thing wrong with OS X so far. It has the same problem XP does when the connection to a network drive gets dropped. I think it’s constantly retrying and failing. It would be better if it just quit, or spun the retries off onto another thread. As it is Finder is useless for a minute or so after that happens, although all open apps work fine.

I think that's been handled in Leopard...

17 posted on 10/02/2007 9:07:12 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
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