Take the 2-minute tour ×  I would like to know as a new Mac user
if anyone has any idea why scrolling or moving the cursor in the
terminal is so slow.  It may be common to Mac apps but I use the
terminal more. Even installing and running builtin commands at
the terminal seem sluggish. Is the Unix environment native to
Mac OS X or are the tools and utilities just ported to the Mac.
It definitely isn't a resource shortage because I am running 4G
RAM and it is a 2.1 Core 2 Duo processor so I would imagine the
command line apps at the very least shouldn't seem sluggish.
share|improve this question That's very strange in mine run as
fast as strolling anything else. Mac OSX is UNIX at the core, so
no "porting" or anything. Many of the utilities come directly
from some UNIX branch, some other are taken from gnu. – 
OscarRyz Sep 8 '10 at 20:13 OS X is a dialect of Unix. The
utilities are ported to OS X to the same extent (roughly
speaking) as they are in any dialect of Unix or Linux. I would
say that something isn'