My favorite Apple Myths - Number 1 - the speed
Mar 11th, 2007 by AndieCZ
My favorite computer in the world is always told to be pretty slow, mainly compared with Windows and some special versions of Linux. You can find a lot of analyses on the web, where there are performance tests and Mac OS X is usually the last one.
Generally, with the speed, there is always one connected issue. For what purposes do you use your computer? Fine, for building a nuclear power plant, you cannot use a PC from 1994, but for writing the document, browsing the Internet and sorting your photos - you easily can.
When the new model is delivered to the market, you have no chance to notice any improvement as producing a simple A4 document will take the same time from you. The computer is most of its time in the idle mode, just waiting for the input from the user. Nothing else to be done.
Sure, when you decide to decode and re-code the movie from DVD, than the processor is in the full speed for a limited period of time, as to make it happen, the computer has to process a large portion of data.
Apple produces most of computers, which are not intended to be used as most sophisticated web servers and you should know it. To use your Apple as a web-server can bring disappointment to you.
But, for the common office tasks - Mac OS X is very fairly nice optimized. The optimization for sound playback and graphics rendering is amazing. The users of Windows are aware of stopping the music in the background, when system is performing a “critical†task, but this can never happen on your iMac. The scheduler, memory management and system resources management subsystems of Mac OS X are programmed using a different philosophy.
So, the overall reactions from the system can a bit slower - mainly compared to Windows, but on the other hand - the performance of the system is more stable as every application can receive its fair proportion of the processor time and you can enjoy more smooth work with your Mac. And that is the main benefit for me. I can write a document without noticing the movie is recalculated in the background.
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