Greg In The Desert

Crufty: “Poorly built, possibly over-complex.”

Since upgrading to Tiger, I have been unimpressed with the performance of the Mac OS. I had more problems then I want to count with just getting installed and I’ve had these exact same problems.

With Safari blowing up on me every time my web server squirts some funny Ajax on it, iPhoto exiting when I rotate a photo and Mail.app taking ages to even acknowledge that I have switched to another folder, I guess it’s time to take a hard look at how things are going.

Now, Mail.app has “lost” some of my mail, some in a specific folder that is from the important people. I cannot add things to that folder in mail and the finder gives me a “error -51″ when I try to delete it there. It is also amazingly slow at updating the folder displays, sometimes it doesn’t do it at all.

In Mac OS 9 I always used the blinking time separators in the menu bar clock to determine if my system is “thinking”. When Mac OS X came out this was no long a indicator because it would always blink even when the system got bogged down. Now I again are relying on this indicator because my system will become so bogged down that even those stop blinking. This happens much too often, and never happened prior to 10.4. Nothing is more annoying then having to sit there waiting for the computer to finish doing whatever it’s doing, sometimes for as long as 5 minutes.

It’s still better than my shiny new T-42 running Windows they give me at work, but Apple needs work on the quality side to prevent things from getting any worse.

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