Dock bar improvement in Tiger
Hey all,
On my mac mini I notice even if I do not have much the Dock magnification is some what laggy. It bothers me.
Do you think in Tiger with them switching some of the load to the GPU this will improve?
On my iMac it doesnt do it as much, I have to have a lot open. That is with the processor set to high though. If I set it to auto the dock lags even when nothing is open. I mean it works, its just delayed...you can tell.
Anyone able to comment on this improvement?
On my mac mini I notice even if I do not have much the Dock magnification is some what laggy. It bothers me.
Do you think in Tiger with them switching some of the load to the GPU this will improve?
On my iMac it doesnt do it as much, I have to have a lot open. That is with the processor set to high though. If I set it to auto the dock lags even when nothing is open. I mean it works, its just delayed...you can tell.
Anyone able to comment on this improvement?
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However, if you like it, I also hope it speeds up in Tiger.
Maybe it was just their demo machines doing something strange, since I don't notice it on my friends' powerbooks. The iMacs did noticeably better. Could it be video cards?
I gotz me heres a 1 ghz powerbook and it no lags on me onces bits. (on purpose)
Well, I hope everything speeds up in tiger. It seems that Mac os is the only os that actually is faster with each revision, unlike certain other OSes
Yosemite 400 G3 w/ 256. Lag City. Upgraded to 512. Butter.
Quicksilver G4 w/512. Minor Lag during 'busy times'. Upgraded to 1 gig. Butter.
But for you people that say you dont notice it...well your just not as picky or something.
Originally posted by zenatek
Well in my mini I have 512 and on my iMac I have 1GB...I still notice it on both so its not the ram. Again I only notice it on the iMac when its running on automatic due to it running at about 800Mhz.
But for you people that say you dont notice it...well your just not as picky or something.
I have a 1GHz, iMac G4, 1GB RAM, and there's no lag whatsoever. My brother has a Rev. D iMac G3, 333 Mhz, 256MB RAM and I do notice the magnification lag on that computer, but like others have said, I just attribute it to a slow processor and low RAM.
Things are never automatic on a computer. There is always some delay. If you really wanna check things out ... open the Activity Monitor and go to the 2nd tab from them left ... I think it's Mem Usage or something like that and have it show all user processes ... you'll see just where all that RAM is going, and for what. Sit and watch it for a few minutes and se how much the RAM for your dock varies, then mouse over it to magnify and look at it. It should change a few MB. And if you have other sutff open, well there you go ... there's your lag.
Let me know how it works for you!
Originally posted by g3pro
Does the PB14" use the 5200?
It is already years now from the last 14" Powerbook (Pismo). Do you mean 12"? Yes, the 12" Powerbook has a NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200.
I keep magnification off, just because I find it annoying but turning it on, with a *huge* number of apps open with multiple documents each, VM essentially swamped, and the CPU up around a constant 90% use, I see... no lag. The cursor goes over the Dock, it zooms right up. I move the cursor, it tracks flawlessly. Describe exactly at what point you see lag, if you could.
PowerBook 1.25GHz G4, 512MB RAM.
My magnification is only at about 10%, and the icons are quite small in the first place.. maybe 30x30 pixels. I like magnification on so I have that little twitch of the icons as feedback, but I keep the effect small so the click targets do not move which would be *very* annoying.
If you quickly put your mouse over the dock and drag it around the speed of the zoom effect is more "laggy" then after a few seconds.
I wonder if this doesn't have something to do w/RAM.
Yes, I'm speaking out of my colon here, but hey, no one else has an answer.