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Unfortunately Steve Jobs spoiled it.

Slashdot:
"Every time there's a mention of Mac OS X on Slashdot, there's a flurry of responses about how unbearably slow Mac OS X is."


If your Mac is running slowly despite having sufficient RAM (especially if you have just updated your operating system) ... you need to run Repair Permissions in Disk Utility. In fact, if you have never run Repair Permissions, do it. And if you have run it previously, do it again. (For some reason some permissions tend to revert.)
http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html#Anchor-Slow-29754


Reader Comments:

OS X 10.2 still sucks.

Today, at the place I intern, they finally upgraded the aging Pentium II 266 with more memory and Win 2000. It made a huge difference and I swear the thing is far, far faster in most of what I do everyday than my TiBook 550 at home. Web surfing on the slower connection that they have compared to what I have at home is much snappier. In 10.2, there are still annoying menu delays that make the computer feel like it's running some emulator. For several weeks, I have been using a 25-page document with about 20 Excel graphs in it. The TiBook is dog slow in Word v.X and, on the P2, everything I did was easily 2-5 times faster, particularly in the responsiveness in scrolling. I can't imagine how fast a 2.6 GHz PC feels doing the same thing. Other than the crappy screen and mouse, it was just a lot easier to continue editing the document on the PC.

Apple has a long way to go before OS X becomes usable. Faster machines should help, but jeez, they have been developing OS X for 6 years, before there was even a G3, and in the GUI, 10.2 still gets creamed speedwise by an old PC clunker. This all made me very sad

I prefer Mac OS as long as Mac OS behaves like a friendly OS for my hardware. Jaguar is not, in many ways. So I stick to 10.1.5 until my DVD and other stuff come back to me. An upgraded Beige machine is not something you can send to trash just because Steve Jobs makes efforts to have you do so.
http://www.atpm.com/8.09/paradigm.shtml


Applications open fairly decently when I first boot up, but after a day or so, launches (and much else) slow down to an excruciating crawl.
http://www.applelinks.com/articles/2002/12/20021220135143.shtml


Applications were taking between three and five times as long to load in Jaguar as they had under 10.1.5
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021218055429153


Volume transfer slow-down The most common symptom of slow-down after applying the Mac OS X 10.2.2 update is a dramatic increase in the time it takes to copy files from optical drives, such as Internal CD-ROM drives to the main volume running Mac OS X ...
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20021113072207458&query=Slow+Jaguar


Slow Network Speeds In Jaguar
http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-20323.html


Scrolling an image up and down on a canvas is very slow in OS X but fast in Windows.
http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/realbasic-nug/2004-12/msg00629.html


Slow startup issues under Mac OS X 10.3.7
http://macs.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.macfixit.com%2F


Mac OS X 10.3.7 (#8): More on Slow startup
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041227083427170&query=slow+startup+issues+under+Mac+OS+X+10.3.7


Network slowness, fixes We continue to cover severe network slow-downs for a number of systems upgraded to Mac OS X 10.3.7. This issue can cause an array of other problems including slow startup for network-enabled applications and slow startup for ...
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041221081337401&query=slow+startup+issues+under+Mac+OS+X+10.3.7

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