On my 500 MHz iBook (Dual USB) with 320 MB of RAM, I checked Internet Explorer 5.1 and System Preferences before and after installing 10.1, and both were significantly faster (though, to be fair, it’s entirely likely that Internet Explorer’s improvement was due to its own changes, not Mac OS X 10.1’s). Wags immediately coined the term 'bouncemarks' – the number of times an application’s icon bounced in the Dock – as a measure of launch speed. The most notable improvement comes in the previously dismal performance when launching applications. Mac OS X 10.1 reduces or eliminates performance problems across the board. My 250 MHz PowerBook G3 Series with 160 MB of RAM couldn’t even restart in Mac OS X 10.0 without timing out. Throwing lots of RAM and processor power (particularly a PowerPC G4 with the Velocity Engine coprocessor) at the problem helped, but PowerPC G3-based Macs, and particularly those on the lower end of the RAM scale, were unacceptably slow. Spit and Polish, Quickly - The worst problem suffered by Mac OS X 10.0 was performance. Rest assured that there are many smaller ones that we lack the space to cover here, which we’ll write more about in future issues. Now that Mac OS X 10.1 is here, let’s look at the major changes. #1662: New Macs, 12 top OS features for 2023, vertical tabs in Web browsers, watchOS 9.5.1Īt the July 2001 Macworld Expo in New York, Steve Jobs previewed Mac OS X 10.1, wowing the audience with a demonstration that promised massive speed improvements, the return of features previously exclusive to Mac OS 9, and a host of interface tweaks to address the most glaring of Mac OS X’s usability holes.#1663: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro, 12 more OS features coming in 2023, new Apple service features, Apollo shuts down.#1664: Real system requirements for OS 2023, beware Siri creating alarms instead of timers.#1665: Important OS security updates, abusive Web notifications, solve myopia with an iPhone, Self Service Repair.#1666: Air quality websites and apps, The Password Game.

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