iMac G4 1Ghz slow while browsing...
Hello,
my iMac G4 1Ghz seems very slow while browsing different websites. I use Safari, but it feels the same with ie and camino. On my PC the websites scroll very smoothly but on my Mac is is very sluggish...How can this be? Is there a benchmark-program where i can compare my system with others?
Thanks,
Regards,
Peter
my iMac G4 1Ghz seems very slow while browsing different websites. I use Safari, but it feels the same with ie and camino. On my PC the websites scroll very smoothly but on my Mac is is very sluggish...How can this be? Is there a benchmark-program where i can compare my system with others?
Thanks,
Regards,
Peter
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I ask myself if this is normal or if there a problem with my iMac...
Regards,
Peter
Regards,
Peter
Originally posted by equinox
if you look at http://www.paderkino.de/ and try to scroll in safari you will notice the sluggish behaviour.
Yes, scrolling in Safari is sluggish on that page (probably because of the large table), but normally Safari is a better "scroller" than the other browsers.
Originally posted by Chucker
That page is not a problem with Safari on my iBook 700 with 640 Megs of RAM.
works great for me too, and I only have 384
This is partly due to the way MS has specifically made scrolling smooth in IE for Windows. I wish there was a similar feature under Mac OS X.
Most of the browser scrolling slowness though can safely be attributed to the overall infamous GUI sluggishness in OS X that's been with us ever since March 2001. I seriously hope Apple addresses it once and for all with Panther, but somehow I doubt it and wonder if it's not just a price we pay to the overly powerful graphics engine that is Quartz. It'll be interesting to see how Longhorn (Windows 2005) addresses this problem, now that it's also moving to a fully-composited graphics engine. Maybe by then most machines on the market will be so powerful it won't matter.
Thankfully Safari has at least made browsing much faster than it used to be in OS X, in fact almost comparable to Windows, so we're already half way there.
Thanks,
Peter
Yes, scrolling in the frame in that link is terrible. However, control click in it and say "Open Frame in New Window" and you'll see that is scrolls MUCH better.
I would suggest sending feedback to Apple (via the Bug button, perhaps) and be sure to mention what I've said about the scrolling improving when the frame is by itself.
Originally posted by equinox
if you look at http://www.paderkino.de/ and try to scroll in safari you will notice the sluggish behaviour. other browsers don't show this behaviour. very strange because safari is somehow faster on other sites...
Regards,
Peter
No sluggishness on my iBook700.
dunno.
Peter
Incredible in 2003!
Originally posted by equinox
How can this be? Some say yes some say no?
My guess is that some people are so used to sluggish scrolling in Mac OS X that relatively it doesn't seem slow.
Buy a cheap Athlon Box and see how an ugly fisher price interface whizzes along with IE.
Lemon Bon Bon 8)
Originally posted by Lemon Bon Bon
Because it's using a crap, antiquated 1 gig G4 on a slow bus running on a half finished modern OS.
Buy a cheap Athlon Box and see how an ugly fisher price interface whizzes along with IE.
Hear hear!
KANE