MacOS – What’s the difference between the OS X version and build numbers

Hardware-wise: PowerPC is a microprocessor developed mainly by the three developing companies Apple, IBM, and Motorola. It is built with reduced instruction-set computer (RISC) which speeds-up the operation of MIPS (million instructions per second). PowerPC is mainly based on IBM’s earlier Power architecture because it has a similar RISC instruction set for microprocessors.

Intel and AMD CPU's are based on CISC architectures. Typically CISC chips have a large amount of different and complex instructions. The philosophy behind it is that hardware is always faster than software, therefore one should make a powerful instructionset, which provides programmers with assembly instructions to do a lot with short programs. In common CISC chips are relatively slow (compared to RISC chips) per instruction, but use little (less than RISC) instruction

I believe I figured out the difference:

Dragging:

1. Double tap and hold to begin dragging.
2. Release the mouse.
3. Depending on the amount of time that has passed, moving the mouse will do one of the following:
   • Brief delay: moving the mouse continues the dragging, essentially behaving the exact same way as drag lock. The cycle is then repeated once you release your finger.
   • Longer delay: dragging is stopped.

Dragging & Drag Lock:

1. Double tap and hold to begin dragging.
2. Release the mouse.
3. Moving the mouse will continue dragging.
4. Tap once to stop the dragging.

It's that brief delay that was throwing me off. There doesn't seem to be any way to customize the length of this delay. One thing that does help, though, is figuring out exactly how long this delay is. One method for figuring this out is the following:

1. Drag an icon from the dock a tiny bit so that if you were to release it, it wouldn't be deleted.
2. Release the mouse.
3. Observe how long it takes for the icon to move back to its place. That is the exact amount of minimum time that you should wait when you are finished dragging something.