It also neglects to support xterm mouse reporting. now imagine a full-screen vim session at 1600x1200. The open source iTerm is slightly better, but, it's awfully slow (it grabs as much as 30% of the CPU per terminal instance.Sure, transparency is nice, and with some hacking about (when was the last time you had to force 'stty erase'?) you can get decent enough color xterm emulation, but. Apple's Terminal is slow (though performance has been better in 10.2.x), doesn't support xterm mousing, and for some reason refuses to send PgUp/PgDn through to any applications running in the terminal (gah!).'Take, for instance, the following options: What's your answer to the state of terminal emulation on the Mac?' Drawoc summarizes the currently available offerings and their drawbacks, below. Unfortunately for me, decent terminal emulation seems to be one area where Mac OS X is quite lacking. However, due to the sort of development work I do, I spend a great deal of my time in a terminal. Drawoc Suomynona asks: 'After settling into Mac OS X over the last four months, I'm generally impressed.