I have been on Tiger for a couple of months now, and have been less than impressed. It is not faster (on a PowerBook), and it keeps getting in my way. Spotlight is aptly named, every time I try to use it, it seems to have to ‘warm up’, taking tens of seconds to do anything. Throw in the indexing that it does ‘in the background’ to help the ’snappy search times’, and it is a ball and chain around the neck of even the most powerrful PowerBook.

Yesterday, Mail.app has decided that anytime I switch between mail accounts (I have 4), it needs to do some several second long, 100% CPU task (mostly system, not user CPU). Switching between email accounts had always been a UI redraw, but today something is totally hosing that.

Anyone have any ideas?

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