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The modern Mac is blazing fast hardware. The UI however still has a lot of ancient baggage which drags performance down. I am running a PC game on my iMac that

The modern Mac is blazing fast hardware. The UI however still has a lot of ancient baggage which drags performance down. I am running a PC game on my iMac that is written in Direct-X at full frame rates via Crossover. Metal is incredibly fast access to the GPU, yet the Finder is still lame at doing lots of things. Like any 20+ year old technology, it's a combo of old baggage holding on alongside massive improvements. Windows 10 is no different, just in different ways. I do wish Apple spent a little more time on general performance and usability improvements (looking at you Xcode) but I know supporting a massive codebase with such a long legacy is really hard. That said Apple doing their own hardware has always been the ultimate goal. End to end control was always the dream.

ChuckNorris89 6y ago
>The modern Mac is blazing fast hardware. Ryzen 4000 has something to say about that ;)
- rbanffy 6y ago
  Ryzen 4000 may be blazinger, but that doesn't mean those 10th gen Intel CPUs are slow. I can order a machine that outspecs a MacPro from Dell or Lenovo, but it won't be as tightly integrated as a Mac
jfkebwjsbx 6y ago
With 6/8 threads and a low/mid-end GPU there is nothing "blazing fast" about the hardware. They are common, average components for laptops. The build quality and software is where macOS was always excellent when Jobs was at the helm. Now software is finicky, lacks support for standards and the build quality cannot be trusted as a whole.
- pdpi 6y ago
  > They are common, average components for laptops. The point is precisely that. Average components are blazingly fast these days.
- Narishma 6y ago
  Even low-end hardware today is blazing fast. It's the slow software that drags it down.
donatj 6y ago
Wasn’t Finder rewritten from the ground up in snow leopard?
- markdog12 6y ago
  Looks like it was ported from Carbon to Cocoa: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6/18/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6/18/
- PostThisTooFast 6y ago
  I remember that promise. Yet to this day, it’s the same defective shit. At least Apple fixed ONE thing after decades of complaints: You can finally make Finder sort properly (with folders AT THE TOP).

ChuckNorris89 6y ago

>The modern Mac is blazing fast hardware. Ryzen 4000 has something to say about that ;)

rbanffy 6y ago
Ryzen 4000 may be blazinger, but that doesn't mean those 10th gen Intel CPUs are slow. I can order a machine that outspecs a MacPro from Dell or Lenovo, but it won't be as tightly integrated as a Mac

jfkebwjsbx 6y ago

With 6/8 threads and a low/mid-end GPU there is nothing "blazing fast" about the hardware. They are common, average components for laptops. The build quality and software is where macOS was always excellent when Jobs was at the helm. Now software is finicky, lacks support for standards and the build quality cannot be trusted as a whole.

pdpi 6y ago
> They are common, average components for laptops. The point is precisely that. Average components are blazingly fast these days.
Narishma 6y ago
Even low-end hardware today is blazing fast. It's the slow software that drags it down.

donatj 6y ago

Wasn’t Finder rewritten from the ground up in snow leopard?

markdog12 6y ago
Looks like it was ported from Carbon to Cocoa: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6/18/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6/18/
PostThisTooFast 6y ago
I remember that promise. Yet to this day, it’s the same defective shit. At least Apple fixed ONE thing after decades of complaints: You can finally make Finder sort properly (with folders AT THE TOP).