Digital BW, The Print

On Apr 25, 2005, at 9:33 AM, dfaprinting wrote:

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>>   It also has some "bloatware" type apps built into the OS that
>> can't be quit(DashBoard for instance) which slows things down a bit
> on my Dual G4 1.25.
>> Images take longer to open in CS and there is a slight pause when
> selecting certain dialog
>> boxes.   I'm sure it runs great on Dual G5's though.
>>
>> Tariq
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>
> Lovely bloatware.... must of learned that from Microflaccid. If it
> wasn't for all the things that slow the machines down, every platform
> would be incredibly fast. Too bad Apple didn't adopt and fully support
> the Xwindow system so you could choose how fast you wanted your machine
> to go (with in reason).

Dashboard doesn't slow anything down unless you use it; it's like 
saying Photoshop slows my machine down. Dashboard, however, can be 
useful to some, and I've already set to work on some Dashboard widgets 
for a production environment (for checking job status, and other task 
info).

In my experience with Tiger, it's faster on every piece of hardware 
I've tested, from 12" iBooks to G5s. Likewise, dialogs are much faster 
here for me, and I work on G4s only every day (I don't rate a G5 yet 
:). YMMV, of course.

Btw, system updates tend to break poorly developed apps, on all 
platforms. Sadly, most scanner drivers fall right into this category. 
If it's a critical production system, you shouldn't be upgrading 
without some testing anyway - it's easy, throw it on a FW drive and 
give it a go.

Best,

Roger