- Joined
- May 7, 2008
- Messages
- 73
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 6
- Your Mac's Specs
- 15" MBP 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 7200RPM 200GB
Hey! I'm a pretty new switcher; I bought my first Mac (a 15" MBP) about 3 months ago. Initially, I was a little wary. Everything I read about OS X was how great it was, so I guess I must have been expecting the sea to part. After using it for a while, I find that it does have it's own issues. However, the purpose of this post is to talk about one of the reasons I love my new Mac: OS X and it's multi tasking.
In Windows, whenever I would delete a relative large folder and tried to delete another file/folder while the first was deleting, XP would tend to.. well... give up, I guess. It would usually freeze up, and Explorer would crash or something. It was weird, because it seemed to happen whenever I tried, so of course I just stopped doing it. The other day, I was on an XP machine in the computer lab at the university and was dragging a file to the recycling bin (hah, that's from the "drag it to the trash" ubiquity in OS X) and my cursor happened to cross the "Windows Live Shared Folders" thingy, which MSN (Live Messenger) uses I guess. These shared folders were not available, probably because I've never used them and have no idea what it is... Everything locked up, and eventually I was able to alt+tab out of windows explorer and back to my web browser. It was crashing, and bad... haha. In Task Manager, the process "Drag" was Not Responding, so I had to kill it (really, Drag was not responding...) and eventually everything came back, but not after the usual "everything goes away and comes back" that I know too well in XP).
Now I'm on my Mac, and I can "queue" up several deletes, one after the other. The tasks are appended to a list (something like when you have two things happening in Mail, say incoming and outgoing messages at the same time). Both progress bars chug along, and in the end, what I deleted is gone.
More importantly for me, I open up Safari and browse the Mac-Forums every time I am doing something in Finder that could take a few seconds (like deleting a large folder, or emptying the trash). I can continue to work like nothing is happening, and it's great.
Just felt like sharing
In Windows, whenever I would delete a relative large folder and tried to delete another file/folder while the first was deleting, XP would tend to.. well... give up, I guess. It would usually freeze up, and Explorer would crash or something. It was weird, because it seemed to happen whenever I tried, so of course I just stopped doing it. The other day, I was on an XP machine in the computer lab at the university and was dragging a file to the recycling bin (hah, that's from the "drag it to the trash" ubiquity in OS X) and my cursor happened to cross the "Windows Live Shared Folders" thingy, which MSN (Live Messenger) uses I guess. These shared folders were not available, probably because I've never used them and have no idea what it is... Everything locked up, and eventually I was able to alt+tab out of windows explorer and back to my web browser. It was crashing, and bad... haha. In Task Manager, the process "Drag" was Not Responding, so I had to kill it (really, Drag was not responding...) and eventually everything came back, but not after the usual "everything goes away and comes back" that I know too well in XP).
Now I'm on my Mac, and I can "queue" up several deletes, one after the other. The tasks are appended to a list (something like when you have two things happening in Mail, say incoming and outgoing messages at the same time). Both progress bars chug along, and in the end, what I deleted is gone.
More importantly for me, I open up Safari and browse the Mac-Forums every time I am doing something in Finder that could take a few seconds (like deleting a large folder, or emptying the trash). I can continue to work like nothing is happening, and it's great.
Just felt like sharing