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Spotlight still takes a few seconds, rather often, to open up and receive keyboard input. I HATE waiting a few seconds for something that's a part of my thought
by swombat 16y ago
Spotlight still takes a few seconds, rather often, to open up and receive keyboard input. I HATE waiting a few seconds for something that's a part of my thought process. When I think "Open chrome" and I move my fingers into the magic incantation needed to make that happen, it should be opening, now, RIGHT THIS FUCKING MOMENT. Not three seconds later.
I don't care if it's fast enough most of the time. It needs to be fast enough every single time.
Launchbar is always there within 200ms, no matter what my computer is chugging on at the moment. That's well worth the 20 bucks.
- dilap 16y agoI've found spotlight to be reliably instant since moving to SSD. That might explain the difference in experiences here. (I also don't index docs -- just apps and prefs.)
- evgen 16y agoEven on a SSD spotlight can be slow if you have not turned off doc indexing. I tend to use LaunchBar and Spotlight as a combination team for specific purposes: LaunchBar to get apps fired up quickly and Spotlight to do search within documents and as a general indexer.