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What is rotten exactly? Besides the fact the FCP X debuted with some missing features that were quickly restored in dramatically improved form.

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Shake was acquired and then killed. FCP is no longer a pro application. They've added lots of nice first time user experience things, but largely ignored what "professional" users need. Which is fine. Apple wants to sell software (and iphones and ipads) to Moms and Dads and college kids.

FCP may not be a pro application for editors who use tape, but it is most definitely a pro app for editors who have gone fully digital. I doubt Apple spent millions of dollars and several years to rebuild FCP from the ground up in order to sell iPhones to Moms and Dads.

HFS+. Searching for 'git osx performance' turns up these:

- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3313908/git-is-really-slo...

- http://lists-archives.com/git/652294-git-performance-on-os-x...

- http://blog.persistent.info/2010/12/making-git-faster-on-lar...

Bingo! Their filesystem, block i/o generally, and networking are all slower than linux, and scale up less will with additional cores.

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