Re: metallized interface
Re: metallized interface
- Subject: Re: metallized interface
- From: Phillip Hutchings <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 18:31:43 +1300
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On Friday, Nov 1, 2002, at 13:14 Pacific/Auckland, Angela Brett wrote:
I have a 1.3ghz athlon with XP next to an 800mhz macosx powerbook at
this minute. Give me macosx on the powerbook every single time! Even
though its unix, less HD thrashing, more stability and I can't say
since 10.2 I've ever been bugged by slowness on macosx (other than the
rediculously inadequate help viewer)
Tell me about it! I have a 1.6GHz Pentium 4 at work, and it can be
much slower than my 466MHz G3 running OS X... it often takes several
(up to 50 - I've timed it) seconds to painstakingly draw a window
section by section. The only thing slow on Mac OS X is applications
starting up, and even then at least I can go off and do something else
while I wait. And XP is the king of GUI inconsistency... there are 3
to 7 different visual styles of each kind of widget.
I have an iMac 500Mhz CDRW with 640MB of RAM running 10.2, and a Compaq
Presario 905 Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53GHz) DVD/CDRW with 256MB (shared)
RAM. I can say conclusively that the iMac is far superior in graphics
appearance. For example, my start menu on the windows machine takes
about 1/2 second to draw after it's appeared, but none of my Mac's
menus ever appear before they're drawn. Waiting with nothing on the
screen is annoying, I wish the mac would highlight the menu title while
drawing or something, but it's much better having things wait until
drawn. And as for GUI inconsistency, XP is the greatest :) .NET
applications look different from XP apps which look different to 9x
apps.....
Also, all of my mac (cocoa at least) has useful things like
anti-aliasing (my laptop looks crisper, but that's because it's a LCD),
inline spell checking, text-to-speech (with intelligible voices) and a
consistent behaviour. Carbon is slightly different, and I wish it
wasn't, but it's livable. Finally, my scrollwheel works everywhere! My
touchpad on the laptop uses a proprietary system that barely works in
anything other than MS products.
As for the topic of this discussion, notice how all the apple iApps
(brushed metal ones) only ever have a single window? Sometimes pallets
etc, but never multi window? I guess this is the intended interface,
small utility apps, not something someone spends a lot of time working
in, but looks at frequently for information. The 'Real World' metaphor
explains this quite well. This is also why the finder isn't metal - it
has multi windows.
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Phillip Hutchings
http://www.sitharus.com/
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