Ten things every new Macintosh user should know
While you’re waiting, take a gander at this.
Paul Stamatiou, fellow 9rules Network Member, has written “10 things every new Mac owner should know” which melds together many things that I personally agree with. Switching from Windows to Mac sometimes means learning a few new things, and this article will help.
There are also some great additions to this list in the comments, if you have any to add - go over there and do so. Oh, and digg it too.
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At the risk of sounding pedantic, I must point out that the “No Need to Defrag” section isn’t really accurate:
#1 The Windows NTFS filesystem is journaled, so that’s not really a “benefit” of switching to the Mac.
#2 A journaled filesystems has no effect on disk fragmentation. Journaling is a filesytem feature that ensures your disk will be in a consistent state after a power failure.
#3 Disk fragmentation has absolutely nothing to do with a “proven and reliable Unix architecture” either. It has to do with file writing patterns (and how the disk write cache consolidates them).
#4 NTFS is relatively immune to disk fragmentation. Except in some extreme cases, if your PC is running slow, it isn’t filesystem fragmentation.
OSX DOES reduce/eliminate the need to manually defragment. However, the primary reason for this is the automatic idle/background defragmentation process.
Windows XP has essentially the same feature. It does disk defragmentation when the system is idle. It also does things like Prefetch when the system is idle.
Myron A Semack on November 29th, 2005 7:51 pm
Myron: If you read the comments on that article, you’d see he was called out on that very fact. Also, on digg it was too. Keep your pedantic comments to yourself.
Just kidding. Thanks for pointing that out to our readers who may not know better, or did not read the comments on Paul’s site.
Colin D. Devroe on November 29th, 2005 8:07 pm
I obviously didn’t read the comments on the other site before I made my post. I probably should have.
A few of the other posters hit the nail on the head (although some still don’t understand it).
Thanks for pointing the other comments out, though.
Myron A Semack on November 30th, 2005 12:50 am
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