drinking the kool-aid

[rone]

One of the things i requested at my new job was that my corporate-issue laptop be a Mac (partly because i was damned if i was going to get stuck with a stinkin' Dell).  After some wrangling with the CFO, my request was granted, so now i have in my possession a 15" PowerBook with a gig of RAM.  I also have a Kyocera KPC650 EVDO card.  I've installed Camino and Firefox, and i downloaded all 800+MB of the developer tools just so i could have gcc kicking around (which i used to build screen, which i configured and compiled with zero hitches).

I like it.  The display is crisp and things work, once you get used to the idea of trying stuff that you know would have never worked in Windows.  It's a damn sight better to use than the GNOME-RedHat desktop i got (which keyboard [DAMN YOU, DELL!] already triggered both tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome in my left arm — after 3 damn days of work!).

In summary, all computers suck, but the Mac seems to suck less.  Huzzah.

Comments

[iayork.livejournal.com]

I do know folks who also like waiting for spotlight and prefer it over Quicksilver. But I've never had any of them say it was because it was faster - it was more a 'slow and steady wins the race' argument. That, by the instantaneous bit of Quicksilver

I'm as baffled by your findings as you are by mine. I just tried Spotlight once again, to be sure I wasn't hallucinating -- I searched for "Towne", looking for the PDF copy of a particular article -- Spotlight turned it up (out of >70GB used on my hard drive -- some 750 PDF files, though I wasn't limiting the search to that folder) in less than a second. Retesting on other PDFs give similar results.

As I say I've uninstalled Quicksliver, so I can't do a direct comparison, but I do know that when I tried searching for PDFs they usually took well over 10 seconds to turn up (and in contrast to Spotlight were usually not the first on the list, needing to sort through a bunch of irrelevant stuff to find it).

In any case, if you find that waiting for more than a half second is too much anguish, I bow to your faster reflexes.

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

It ain't reflexes, it's ICD (:

I think, tho, this may come down to organization of files... I'll BET that my system slows down spotlight to a freaking crawl (cuz, spotlight isn't any half second thing, try 10+ seconds... I ain't waiting for that.) and that it just 'works' with Quicksilver, whereas yours probably makes Spotlight scream (which is BEYOND me how that could be but still, it must be, as you're not saying it's slow (: )

[iayork.livejournal.com]

I doubt it's much to do with file organization -- have you tweaked the Spotlight preferences? I spent a few minutes with them when I installed Tiger, telling Spotlight not to show this kind of file and to put the other kind first and so on, and maybe that's what makes the difference.