I swear macos 9 was faster to navigate with the keyboard, than the dog slow finder of OS x. I could do a video proving it. though quicksilver is probably fastest of all, but unless its integrated and standard on all machines you might use, whats the point in learning it. ie If its not in the operating system as standard it doesnt really figure.
my test would be like
Quadra 700 with 68040 with fpu coprocessor, mac os 7 8 or 9 and quark 3 something
v
intel core 2 duo 1.83 , mac os x 10.whatever you care to choose and the slow bloatware that is indesign.
in a speed design shootout with some heavy high speed open save dialog navigation thrown in for good measure, I swear the quadra 700 would win hands down, on a basic test layout document as long as the images embedded in the document werent 12 megapixel blurry bloatware, but preview size images of a reasonable kb.
somebody should do this video. it would involve a keyboard proficient quark operator from that time, but it would be an embarressing loss for the modern system.
Thats why voice recognition, touch sensitivity with pens or fingers have taken so long to arrive, because very few people risked building them in as standard into every system they produced, they are all old features that were invented so long ago really. But never popularised until possibly now. The mouse itself would not be standard now unless it had been popularised by apple in 1984, and integrated as standard part of every system they produced.
roll on the slow damn evolution of computer interfaces.