OS X Concerns

By David Norton 

I know Mac OS X is the most overwritten topic in the Mac industry, but I have concerns about OS X. While there is nothing wrong with all the eye-candy, Apple mustn't let that get in the way of the pure speed of the computer.

If Apple plays its cards right, there will be great graphics along with an efficient interface - I don't want all those cool looking effects if I'm slowed down by the windows whooshing to the dock, and the active window-resizing.

The thing I'm concerned about the Dock is the Genie effect - it takes at least a second or two to complete, on the G4 Steve Jobs was using at the MacWorld keynote. If it were possible, I'd just like to have an option for it be simpler or quicker or both.

Can icons be on the desktop? I hope not. I have too many things on the desktop! Every download, virtually every file I make goes to the desktop. Without a desktop, it will force us to be organized, and we can have a downloads folder, an URLs folder, and a documents folder, etc. Or, what is more likely, is that people will start using the Dock as the desktop.

While I have mostly been writing about the potential unproductive things, there are absolutely dozens of things in Mac OS X designed for productivity &endash; the Dock, the Finder, MailViewer, the Font tools, and the whole interface.

Mac OS X should be one of the best designed OSes, by the time it's released. Let's hope Apple doesn't mess up on a few stupid things and get the whole world mad.

David Norton may have a life.

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