A torture of the new MacBook user
May 20th, 2007 by AndieCZ
Buying a new MacBook or MacBook Pro can bring some issues to your life. There is a guy, who has several pains using his new MacBook.
I would really recommend to read his blog post as many of the issues he met are the issues I am suffering from.
What are his biggest remarks:
- Safari browser – Honestly, I am not using Safari on my own Mac computer. The browser displays some sites differently from the other web browser and some sites, which are very important for me are not working with Safari at all. And Firefox? With the latest release of Firefox I meet the issue of freezing and “quitting unexpectedly†is a real trouble. Firefox is able to crash several times a day.
- Office Suite – OpenOffice is terrible on Mac OS X. Generally, Sun is working on the solution to improve OpenOffice on Macs, but it will take some time. And NeoOffice can help a bit, but you pay a tax by slowing down the whole suite. And to use MS Office for Mac by Microsoft? It is a very painful solution. Really.
- Dashboard – I love this feature of the system. Just till the moment, when I run Activity Monitor. Try to run it. You will see, that the very basic dashboard applet is able to consumer several tens of megabytes of memory. I do not understand why, but have a look. Also, the first run of Dashboard takes long seconds to launch. I completely agree. I think Dashboard is the feature of Mac OS X to make a huge improvement in Mac OS X Leopard.
- Trashcan – I have completely different issue with Mac OS X Trashcan. When browsing the Trashcan and trying to open a file, I have to copy it back to the file system, not to open it directly from the trash. But generally, when I search in the Trash at my home, I can have a look at the papers without taking them back. Apple should correct this.
- Video Playing – it is a pain on Apple, it is a pain in Windows. Tons of file formats, many of them with the same suffix, it is really a mess. There should be a common initiative to make video playback easy on computers. To find a common standard, which will be fully supported and video will be distributed just in this format. By the way, Apple has to put the full quick time player to Mac OS X. You buy a computer able to do its job, not the computer ready to download paid updates.
In my eyes, the advices were about adding additional memory, which helps to stabilize the performance of your MacBook. Guys, Apple sells pretty expensive toys. And the toys should be ready for the work immediately. The company should decrease its margin a bit and to deliver the computer with enough memory for its users. The Apple Community is not full of technical gurus to add the memory into the computer or to change the hard drive.
Or am I wrong?
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I dunno, I’m pretty savy when it comes to those types of things. But regardless, you certainly make some good points, and yes, for sure, OS X needs a little bit better memory management. The simplest apps can use so much memory! Not to mention that the OS X pagefile is usually over 6 GB! My machine has 1 GB of RAM, and I wouldn’t buy a Mac with anything less.