A Bit of Disenchantment
Well, I've been using OS X steadily now for several weeks and while I like its overall stability a lot, some things are becoming exceedingly annoying.
First, screen redraws often seem sluggish to the point of unacceptability. In Eudora, e.g., if I click from one email subject to another, there is always a noticeable delay in the screen update. In Word, things are even worse; sometimes I can type a few letters, not see them display, wait a few seconds, nothing happens, type another character and then the earlier ones appear. Closing windows very often takes 3-5 seconds. This on a 500MHz G4 tower with 500MB of RAM!
Second, I see weird application behavior (which is OK because this is all new) but can't seem to recover easily. For example, when Radio brings itself to the front when it's running, I get annoyed because it interrupts my work. But often clicking on the icon of the program I was running in the Dock - or even of some other program - nothing happens. So I click on the window of the app I want to run and that's visible in the background. No joy. It sometimes takes me two or three pokes at things to get back where I was. I'm bewildered.
Finally, navigating through directories from the standard file dialog in applications has become so gnarled and twisted that it reminds me of the old text adventure games. (Yeah, I know. I'm dating myself.) This in turn is a function, at least in part, of the way OS 9 folders are "integrated" into the OS X world. In any case, between "favorites" and "most recent" and the default standard stuff, I sometimes find it impossible to locate a file I just created!
I'm not going to move any of my less-than-savvy clients or my wife over to OS X until I'm really sure the transition is going to be, if not smooth, at least not jarring.
12:02:42 PM 
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