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By: Squarenine [Sq]9 » Switch to Witch | MacApper

Squarenine [Sq]9 » Switch to Witch | MacApper — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:06:13 +0000

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By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:35:31 +0000

I know its been said before, I just thought I’d chip in as well. Two words. Too Slow.

I’ve got a 1st rev MBP with 2 gigs of ram. That should be MORE than sufficient to invoke this app near instantaneously. When someone is task switching, they are multitasking, which probably means they have a short attention span (at least that’s my case ).

I just use Quicksilver as my task switcher/launcher/swiss-army-knife-of-configurable-goodness. Even with all the UI enhancements turned on with QS its still way faster than witch.

Jorge
Quicksilver Evangelist

By: Matt J

Matt J — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:11:40 +0000

I tried running it on my Mini Core Solo, but it’s just too slow to be of any use. âŒ˜-tab is near instant, but Witch takes several seconds.

By: MrSIn

MrSIn — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:25:08 +0000

I don’t think about “Witch.” I just use it, daily. I’m thinking this is the best compliment, or recommendation, I can give an application?

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 30 May 2007 10:45:03 +0000

I’m a much more visual person so I prefer to see thumbnails of all my windows. Aside from that, Witch is a very nicely done app for people looking for something like Alt+Tab in Windows. I must say it has a lot better layout than Alt+Tab.

By: Nathaniel Perales

Nathaniel Perales — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:32:26 +0000

I agree with most of your review, but honestly Witch is definitely not as fat as the cmd+tab that comes with the mac. I actually got so sick of Witch (after using it for 8 months regorously) that last night I deleted the application from my system preferences and deleted the application enhancer that disables cmd+tab. I just couldn’t stand how slow it is.

Yes, my Powerbook is a G4 and only 1.5GHz, but come on, it is definitely not strikingly fast as you make it seem. I have to literally wait 2 to 5 seconds for it to come up. It takes longer than actually moving my mouse to the dock and clicking what I want.

I also disagree that it makes expose look slow and cluttered. I use expose as my primary application switcher.

By: A. R.

A. R. — Wed, 30 May 2007 02:27:52 +0000

I might be wrong about this, but I’m pretty sure Witch is donantionware, which is not free.

By: Techslacker

Techslacker — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:08:13 +0000

Witch is a great solution for people like me who believe Apple’s method of switching apps and documents is flawed.

And, yes, I strongly believe that. Expose sorely needs the ability to select apps that have no windows open. That method with a CMD-Tab solution like Witch would be perfect.

The biggest downside to Witch though is that it’s actually not fast unless you’re not doing much on your system. Sure, I’m running on an older 1.33 12″ Powerbook with 1.25GB of ram. If there’s anything going on stressing the system a bit, you’ll notice quickly that Apple’s current CMD-Tab solution is much, much quicker than Witch. Witch gets a bit laggy. I still use it for its convenience but I could see people getting put off by how slow it is. I’m guessing it’s paging out when not in use and back in when called.