Taming Lion
(image credit : http://especiallyemilyd.blogspot.in/2010/10/lion-and-tigers-and-tamers-oh-my.html ) Last weekend I went to a mall and was playing with an iMac - what a beauty it is. Apps were loading with one click and they looked beautiful on a gorgeous display. I got home and checked my 13" Mac book pro which is nearing its complimentary 1 year warranty ( debating whether to bite the expensive Apple Care or going Commando ). It was slow. Really slow. I longed for the spiffy machine I once used to have. This put me on a hunt and meanwhile set up development environment in Windows and worked on it for a day to see how things are. Here is the bitter truth - Apple Fans - OS X Lion sucks at Memory Management. The net is ablaze with cribs and complaints on how poorly Lion manages memory - inspite of Macs being blessed with super powerful processors and enormous amount of RAM. Still I would vote OS X Lion to be the best in class for Productivity and by the amount of things one ca...