Re: Mac Painful Pinwheel Pauses
- From: Lefty Bigfoot <nunya@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:31:30 GMT
Homey wrote
(in article <c6l8g.8064$fR3.2350@xxxxxxxx>):
Mac OS X is much more robust than any system software previously released by
Apple, but it's not immune to inexplicable behavior. Despite the fact that
my iMac is running the very latest Mac OS X 10.4.3 on a 1.8GHz PowerPC G5
with the maximum of 2GB of memory, not a day goes by that I don't confront
the productivity-sapping pinwheel cursor, which indicates that the Mac is
busy with some unknown task. Usually the cursor reverts to normal if I just
wait a few seconds, but sometimes I must resort to force quitting
applications to set things right again.
Call me unrealistic or naive, but I can't understand why my relatively
powerful Mac with seemingly boundless amounts of free memory and disk space
would ever be so busy during normal operation that Tiger can't keep up with
modest user demands (writing, emailing, browsing).
The spinning beachball of death is just another form of the
hourglass cursor. It has always been curious why Apple goes to
such lengths picking a maximally visible way to tell you that an
operation is taking longer than expected. You would think,
especially from a company that is supposed to be great at UI and
ergonomics, that they'd figure out how to make it minimally
invasive instead. The beachball is primarily annoying because
it is so obvious and brightly colored.
--
Lefty
All of God's creatures have a place..........
..........right next to the potatoes and gravy.
See also: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gif
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