[DM-MUG] OS X 10.6 Initial Impression

[AB]

There's a slight chance, Part of it might be the Graphics card in both. Apple doesn't include as high end as I always felt it should in the way of a graphics card and hard drive space. Aperture sometimes stalls on my Mac Pro. I thought maybe it was all the updates, or maybe an update yet to be released from Apple. I hadn't considered it to be an OS related thing. Sometimes with speed and performance it is hard to tell what is caused by hardware or software limitations.

--- On Thu, 9/3/09, Alan Maupin <alan.maupin at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Alan Maupin <alan.maupin at gmail.com>
> Subject: [DM-MUG] OS X 10.6 Initial Impression
> To: "Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org>
> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 8:26 AM
> Last friday I upgraded three of our
> Mac's with OS X 10.6.  I'd pre  
> ordered the Snow Leopard five pack for $50 and it was
> delivered on  
> time. The Fed-ex delivery guy took the time to mention that
> he was  
> behind schedule due the increase caused by the pre ordered
> Snow  
> Leopard packages.  As a result of the upgrade
> all  three of our OS X  
> machines are faster and ESPECIALLY the MacBook
> Air.   Generally, the  
> performance of the graphical user interface seems to have
> caught up  
> with the application utility of OS.   My
> MacPro with its quad cores  
> and 8Gb of ram has always felt a bit sluggish to
> me.   The  
> sluggishness was most pronounced when running Final Cut
> Studio  
> applications.   I can now scrub a high
> definition video timeline  
> without the previous snag and lag.  It feels fluid
> like the Aqua theme  
> has always implied.   The 1st generation
> Macbook Air was SLOW and it  
> felt SLOW.   10.6 causes the Air to now move
> with a purpose although  
> it will never be a speed demon. --alan
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