Digital BW, The Print

Dashboard is cool, I just don't like that it is built into the OS.  When it was Konfabulator 
before Apple ripped it off, one could choose to have it on or not.  Now, it eats up your 
memory once it is launched.  To varify this, just open your activity monitor and you can 
see that Real Ram is being used by the various apps in Dashboard.  The slow dialogs are 
mainly the printing dialog windows but I noticed a dramatic slowdown in opening images
(even small ones) in CS compared to 10.3.8.  As far as poorly written software goes, The 
problem is that Apple apparently changed the way the SCSI driver works in Tiger vs. 
Panther.  They did the exact same thing when Panther came out.  Everyone who had 
perfectly working SCSI devices started having major problems.  SilverFast by Lasersoft 
imaging is some of the best scanning software made by the way.  I work on a G3 
Powerbook and a Dual G4 daily in my business and use Dual G5's in the class I teach.  
Besides full 64bit capability which really means nothing at this point as there is no 
software to take advantage of it yet(not even the new version of Photoshop!), the only real 
new thing in Tiger is Spotlight and Dashboard and a return to the ability to rotate the 
screen(ya, we only had that back in OS 9!).  Since 10.4.1 is apparently right around the 
corner, hopefully apple will address SCSI, quartz graphic display issues as well as printing 
problems right off the bat.

Tariq

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Roger Howard 
<rogerhoward@m...> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 25, 2005, at 9:33 AM, dfaprinting wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >>   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
> >
> >
> > 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