Why is this 800MHz G4 so slow?
We have a 512MB 800MHz Quicksilver in the studio that is VERY slow.
The screen redraw is shocking. My jaw hit the floor when I saw it trying to redraw the screen in iTunes on 10.1.5. And it's not just iTunes, it's every application.
We also have a 320MB 350MHz Yikes! which absolutely slaughters the 800MHz Quicksilver when running 10.1.5.
Is this normal? Is the ATi Radeon 7500 really this crap?
The screen redraw is shocking. My jaw hit the floor when I saw it trying to redraw the screen in iTunes on 10.1.5. And it's not just iTunes, it's every application.
We also have a 320MB 350MHz Yikes! which absolutely slaughters the 800MHz Quicksilver when running 10.1.5.
Is this normal? Is the ATi Radeon 7500 really this crap?
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<strong>How much RAM do you have?</strong><hr></blockquote>Hello, McFly?
"We have a 512MB 800MHz Quicksilver in the studio that is VERY slow"
"We also have a 320MB 350MHz Yikes!"
other than that can't think of anything. should fly.
-alcimedes
not sure why yours seems so slugish. my ati 7500 is quite spiffy. it does sound like you have some sort of proscess running in the background that may be tying up a good chunk of your resources. also double check to see if all your ram is good.
<strong>Hello, McFly?
"We have a 512MB 800MHz Quicksilver in the studio that is VERY slow"
"We also have a 320MB 350MHz Yikes!"</strong><hr></blockquote>
::smacks head::
I was just waking up... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
Would switching to a Geforce card fix this?
[ 06-26-2002: Message edited by: robot prom ]</p>
<strong>Rebuild the desktop.</strong><hr></blockquote>
How do you rebuild the desktop under OSX?
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How do you rebuild the desktop under OSX?</strong><hr></blockquote>
you don't.
Excellent advice, thuh Freak, I use top as well when my system feels slow. Of course, I already know what's wrong: AIM. Don't use AIM. It takes up about half the system resources on my computer, more than 10x what Photoshop wants. Which is just rediculous. It starts small and then just grows to phenomenal proportions. Even WITH the news and stock tickers off (though that seems to help).
<strong>Try DiskWarrior from Alsoft, the universal fix for almost everything. Granted, it probably won't solve ALL your problems...</strong><hr></blockquote>
LOL, isn't that a bit of an oxy moron?
Oh, and oxymorons are self-contradictory phrases. Those are just two complementary sentences:
A solves X% which isn't 100% of problems. I grant that X% is not %100...
Perfect agreement.
[ 06-29-2002: Message edited by: AllenChristopher ]</p>