Upon first boot I was blown away by the speed of OSX
x86. Even with 1GB of RAM, my Mac mini can take several seconds to launch an application. On this "old" Dell PC applications launched in less than one icon bounce in the dock. I kid you not. Click on Safari, the icon bounces once, and opens immediately. Click on iPhoto...boom! On the Mac mini apps launched in 4-5 bounces, and that's on a good day. Even connecting to the iTunes music store seemed remarkably faster compared with the Mini. Downloading songs went blazing fast. How can this be? The answer is obvious. Apple has worked long and hard to optimize OSX for x86 processors. But the level at which OSX x86 outperforms its PowerPC counterpart is truly remarkabl
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