Re: Another stop by the Apple store

In article <SgX9j.33520$Pv2.24922@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
JCrowe <bongofury@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lloyd Parsons wrote:
In article
<842f24a4-1dfa-447c-b7de-2894c872856a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tommy Troll <tom_elam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Stopped by the Apple Store this afternoon and gave Leopard on a 20"
iMac another spin. I was even less impressed this time. 7 seconds to
launch Keynote, 6 seconds to launch Pages. 12 seconds to launch
Excel. All of those Windows equivalents launch in under 2 seconds on
my 4 year old Dell.

Finally, WTF is up with extensions in Finder? .pdf, .doc, .????? It
looked like Windows with "View File Types" turned on.

Yeh, it's pretty, but damn, it's slow.

Hmm.... Maybe you need a new watch.

Such figures are meaningless unless one includes what other processes
are running. As a for instance, my 2Ghz G5 took something like 20
seconds to bring up Pages while I was burning a Quicken backup CD and
reading email. It only has 1G of memory but this is a fact. Now if I
run it on a relatively quiet system, e.g. without burning a CD it takes
between 2 and 3 seconds to load. FWIW, I am skeptical of Elam's claims
with regards to a four year old Dell loading Office apps in under two
seconds...I have a somewhat newer, fairly quick PClone and it does not
load stuff that quickly. Again, system load factors and speed of disk
are what effect this. You can run activity monitor if you want to see
the actual process loads.

The only way Tom is getting MS Office apps to load that quickly on his
old machine is loading them, closing them, and then opening them again.
Hell, doing that Pages and Numbers are nearly instant loading. Just did
that, 2 seconds on second load.

TT is so full of crap!
.

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