Windows is simply a better multitasking OS

[FMX]

Just throwing this out there - swiping up with four fingers to find all open apps in OS X Lion + is incredibly easy and fast. I don't know what the OP is talking about. Opening new apps is also incredibly easy and, imo, easier. Swipe in with three fingers and bam its there. Of course this is if you're on a MacBook or have a trackpad with an iMac.

 

[itpromike]

There are many, MANY little free applications that give you the "Aero Snap" functionality in OSX, AND you get the added benefits of Spaces and Expose that I couldn't fathom having to live without on a daily basis. Hah and this is coming from someone who makes his living and supports his family on Windows (I'm a Windows systems engineer by trade). I hated Mac's with a passion until my job got me one in 2008 and made me use one, then I just fell in love and ESPECIALLY in love with the multitasking a la' spaces and expose. Now every time I go in to work, hop on my Windows computer, and have 20+ windows open (yup I'm a neurotic multitasker) I just shake my head and HATE how inefficient Aero Peek is for basically doing anything that can be loosely defined as multitasking...

 

[Pia]

There are many, MANY little free applications that give you the "Aero Snap" functionality in OSX,

... such as? I have seen some which cost a lot of money, but I would love to have a free one that works well.

AND you get the added benefits of Spaces and Expose that I couldn't fathom having to live without on a daily basis.

How can you stand Spaces? Just the fact that you can't disable the painfully slow transition animations makes it unusable for me. It's atrocious. I don't believe any designer responsible for it uses keyboard to navigate, or they wouldn't have messed up like that.

 

[Tegeril]

Pia: If you enable the keyboard shortcuts you can jump around from space to space with a much faster animation using ctrl + desktop #.

 

[Ns1]

... such as? I have seen some which cost a lot of money, but I would love to have a free one that works well.

How can you stand Spaces? Just the fact that you can't disable the painfully slow transition animations makes it unusable for me. It's atrocious. I don't believe any designer responsible for it uses keyboard to navigate, or they wouldn't have messed up like that.

Yeah I have no idea what you're talking about. It's like .3 seconds (number I pulled out of my ass) to move from one space to the next. It most certainly loads the next space before I can get my hands off the hot keys.

I use a keyboard to navigate, ctrl + left/right or ctrl + # (or command, w/e)

 

[itpromike]

... such as? I have seen some which cost a lot of money, but I would love to have a free one that works well.

How can you stand Spaces? Just the fact that you can't disable the painfully slow transition animations makes it unusable for me. It's atrocious. I don't believe any designer responsible for it uses keyboard to navigate, or they wouldn't have messed up like that.

Snapping: http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=2342

As for spaces, mine open up instantly so I'm not sure what is going on with yours... If there really is a lag or delay then seriously something is going on that you need to fix. That's not the expected performance and some how all Mac users deal with it or something. Your setup is not performing as intended. What OS and machine are you running? Exact OS version please and I will see what we can do to speed that up. Also if you'd like, there is a tool you can use to change the animation time in milliseconds or disable the animation all together.

 

[itpromike]

Actually I just went back to your original post and you have a MBP retina. Those have a bug (which seemingly doesn't affect everyone) that makes some graphical element such animations and transitions stutter. This is fixed in 10.8.2, however that is still in beta (I'm in the developer program so I have access early). Should hopefully be out of beta soon, within the next 3 weeks. Your on board vid card is being asked to render a ridiculously high resolution and then animations at that high resolution. Pretty impressive that the intel on board GPU can even do such a thing actually. Aero peek and win+tab would produce the same type of slow performance if rendered at that resolution. Anyhow that will be fixed all. For you my friend. It might even be fixed in 10.8.1 (which came out last week)but I'm not sure... You should update and see what happens.