I hate having to hunt for programs, but if there’s one thing I hate more than hunting for a program, it’s a bloated program. Apple has horribly bloated iTunes to the point that if it (or any other modern Apple program) is open on my Mac (granted, this is an older G4 model), the system runs like a slug in January molasses. iTunes is among the lower offenders, along with Mail, while Safari and iPhoto are in the higher positions. These are all fine programs which do NOT have this effect on my only slightly stronger Windows laptop, though, and I wonder how much of the performance is because I have an old machine running new programs — then I realize they’re just hogging up my RAM and HDD space.
I both love and dislike the database — I hate the automatic sorting (I prefer to file by album, not artist, and not by ‘compilation’), but I love the centralized location for all of my music. I was doing that before iTunes, so having it automated when I get new music is a small price to pay for the unlikable aspect of sorting by artist. I have never had a problem with downloading podcasts slowing the system down any more than iTunes does otherwise, though, and the only thing I can propose to “hate” about iTunes now is that it’s a multimedia hub program that won’t play most of my videos. Give users the option to use an audio only version of iTunes, Apple. It would reduce the bloat and it could make things a LOT easier for users who aren’t buying new hardware every 18 months… or five years. Or however old my computer is…
The iLife programs and Safari use more processor resources than necessary for the tasks they perform, and so their memory consumption skyrockets beyond reason. my iTunes is usually using 250 MB RAM (combined real and virtual), while my typical Safari jumps all they way up to the unreasonable 1GB (again, combined) of memory. Granted, I rarely leave my browser off, and I often have dozens of tabs open (I’m a glutton for internet), but it still slows down my nearly full computer by an insane amount. I know I could free up a lot by clearing trash data, cleaning up my file structure, just burning some backup discs every now and then. But it doesn’t remove the problem of iTunes being overly cluttered, or poor trash data management in the iLife suite and Safari. Do I hate iTunes? No. But do I love it? Not since they added video and the program started to get bloated.
I hate having to hunt for programs, but if there’s one thing I hate more than hunting for a program, it’s a bloated program. Apple has horribly bloated iTunes to the point that if it (or any other modern Apple program) is open on my Mac (granted, this is an older G4 model), the system runs like a slug in January molasses. iTunes is among the lower offenders, along with Mail, while Safari and iPhoto are in the higher positions. These are all fine programs which do NOT have this effect on my only slightly stronger Windows laptop, though, and I wonder how much of the performance is because I have an old machine running new programs — then I realize they’re just hogging up my RAM and HDD space.
I both love and dislike the database — I hate the automatic sorting (I prefer to file by album, not artist, and not by ‘compilation’), but I love the centralized location for all of my music. I was doing that before iTunes, so having it automated when I get new music is a small price to pay for the unlikable aspect of sorting by artist. I have never had a problem with downloading podcasts slowing the system down any more than iTunes does otherwise, though, and the only thing I can propose to “hate” about iTunes now is that it’s a multimedia hub program that won’t play most of my videos. Give users the option to use an audio only version of iTunes, Apple. It would reduce the bloat and it could make things a LOT easier for users who aren’t buying new hardware every 18 months… or five years. Or however old my computer is…
The iLife programs and Safari use more processor resources than necessary for the tasks they perform, and so their memory consumption skyrockets beyond reason. my iTunes is usually using 250 MB RAM (combined real and virtual), while my typical Safari jumps all they way up to the unreasonable 1GB (again, combined) of memory. Granted, I rarely leave my browser off, and I often have dozens of tabs open (I’m a glutton for internet), but it still slows down my nearly full computer by an insane amount. I know I could free up a lot by clearing trash data, cleaning up my file structure, just burning some backup discs every now and then. But it doesn’t remove the problem of iTunes being overly cluttered, or poor trash data management in the iLife suite and Safari. Do I hate iTunes? No. But do I love it? Not since they added video and the program started to get bloated.