Re: Tried out iMac/Leopard
- From: OldCSMAer <OldDog@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:37:41 -0600
In article <lloydparsons-38A341.13283615122007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Lloyd Parsons <lloydparsons@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<2462b8e9-3e0c-4220-9c73-d35c7c31f024@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tommy Troll <tom_elam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Spent about 30 minutes playing with a 20" iMac (at the Apple store)
while out buying Christmas presents at the Fashion Mall on the north
side of Indy.
Impressions:
The hardware is lovely, as we all know.
Leopard is pretty, but an ugly POS when it comes to doing anything.
Slow to launch apps, the browser, and Finder. 3 seconds to launch
Word? Get a life. My 4 year old Dell does that job in 1/3 the time.
It just did not feel as snappy as XP or Vista. Confusing screens, way
too many options and lists to look at. How in the world do you find a
document from the "file open" command? The dock is pretty, but just
gets in the way. The keyboard felt sloppy. And that Apple mouse.
What a joke. Nice to look at, wish it would boot to Vista natively,
came with a good keyboard and a Logitech mouse. Then it might
actually be something worth seriously considering.
Are they still locking up from the overheat issues??????
Not a troll
Tommy
I'll take you at your word that you aren't trolling.
I'm a bit surprised at the impression of slowness on a 20" new iMac. I
have the same impression on my original MacMini too, but I expected it
as it wasn't a speed demon to begin with. Apps do load slow on it,
primarily because of the slow HD, but after loading, the apps are plenty
snappy.
OTOH, on my single-processor 1.8Ghz G5, Leopard is just damn quick in
all aspects. File loading, screen movements and refresh, quick as a
bunny.
My only complaints with Leopard so far are :
Extremely slow upgrade/install process. On my mini, it was about 2.5
hours for the upgrade. On the G5, I had to do the DVD consistency check
to even get it to do the install (about 1/2 hour), then a little over an
hour to finish. This was a clean install.
My older Adobe apps are dead in the water, with no fix coming unless I
want to upgrade. Since I'm retired, I don't feel that urge to upgrade
to things I use very little, so I will most likely use other tools to
accomplish the few things those did for me. I'll miss Elements and
GoLive 6.0, but oh well, shit happens.
I don't use Office anymore, no need, and I never like it much, so when I
retired, I retired it too. I got iWork and Pages does just fine for all
my word processing these days, and Numbers is very much more than good
enough to take the place of Excel. Both work extremely well on the mini
and the G5.
It can boot Vista natively. You just set your Vista partition as your
startup disc.
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