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Apple's New 27-Inch iMacs Experiencing Performance Issues?

tempusfugit said:
And this is a great example of windows user logic.

blah, blah, blah

Flash is antiquated, and so are you.
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And this is a great example of Mac user logic. Flash is annoying but it's a standard format that Apple and Adobe should of fixed a long time ago. A $1,800 new computer shouldn't have any problems playing a ten year old format. I have no doubt that Steve Jobs purposely sticks his nose up at Adobe instead reaching out with proverbial olive branch.
 
Apple is removing all Carbon in this transition. Any piece of Carbon that allowed Adobe to move it's tools from Classic to Carbon will soon be gone.

Adobe either refactors the Flash SDK and makes proper abstractions and thus the back end is a clean C99 implementation with the front-ends being either C++ or ObjC or expect a crippled product.
 
Subcide said:
Just posted a video reply showing turning off airport to fix the issue.
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Can you please stop believing it's only an Airport issue? Because it's not, or at least it's much more than that.
My Airport has been disabled for months and all the problems started a couple of weeks after installing Snow Leopard.

And it's not ATI related either (I don't have any).
 
mdriftmeyer said:
Apple is removing all Carbon in this transition. Any piece of Carbon that allowed Adobe to move it's tools from Classic to Carbon will soon be gone.

Adobe either refactors the Flash SDK and makes proper abstractions and thus the back end is a clean C99 implementation with the front-ends being either C++ or ObjC or expect a crippled product.
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Funny how you make it sound like Apple's removal of existing APIs makes Adobe the bad guy.

And, just why is it that after promising Carbon x64, and even shipping it in a developer release, that Apple decided to pull that feature?

My Window 7 x64 system has executables from July 1996 that run just fine. In fact, most of the "won't run in Win7 x64" programs that I've run into are because they're 16-bit programs from 1992 or earlier.

Microsoft understands the importance of ensuring that userland programs run on a new OS. Apple doesn't, and somehow has convinced the sheeple to blame the 3rd party for Apple's mistakes.
 
AidenShaw said:
Funny how you make it sound like Apple's removal of existing APIs makes Adobe the bad guy.

And, just why is it that after promising Carbon x64, and even shipping it in a developer release, that Apple decided to pull that feature?

My Window 7 x64 system has executables from July 1996 that run just fine. In fact, most of the "won't run in Win7 x64" programs that I've run into are because they're 16-bit programs from 1992 or earlier.

Microsoft understands the importance of ensuring that userland programs run on a new OS. Apple doesn't, and somehow has convinced the sheeple to blame the 3rd party for Apple's mistakes.
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Microsoft tried to pull this with Vista. They were going to have a new anti-virus API to keep the AV programs out of the kernel. Symantec and others protested and MS caved in.
 
i have a solution to all this....run safari in 32 bit mode only uses 40-45% cpu during flash videos compared to the 110% it uses when in 64 bit mode
 
AidenShaw said:
Funny how you make it sound like Apple's removal of existing APIs makes Adobe the bad guy.

And, just why is it that after promising Carbon x64, and even shipping it in a developer release, that Apple decided to pull that feature?

My Window 7 x64 system has executables from July 1996 that run just fine. In fact, most of the "won't run in Win7 x64" programs that I've run into are because they're 16-bit programs from 1992 or earlier.

Microsoft understands the importance of ensuring that userland programs run on a new OS. Apple doesn't, and somehow has convinced the sheeple to blame the 3rd party for Apple's mistakes.
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Yeah, I never understood why you wouldn't support entire programming languages. I guess Apple knows best.
 
AidenShaw said:
Funny how you make it sound like Apple's removal of existing APIs makes Adobe the bad guy.

And, just why is it that after promising Carbon x64, and even shipping it in a developer release, that Apple decided to pull that feature?

My Window 7 x64 system has executables from July 1996 that run just fine. In fact, most of the "won't run in Win7 x64" programs that I've run into are because they're 16-bit programs from 1992 or earlier.

Microsoft understands the importance of ensuring that userland programs run on a new OS. Apple doesn't, and somehow has convinced the sheeple to blame the 3rd party for Apple's mistakes.
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right, and the apple sheeple cannot understand why fortune 100 companies beside apple don't run apple company-wide, amongst other reasons...

but the 27" screen looks great hardware wise.
 
scottness said:
My 20" iMac runs flash with no probs... My 1st gen MBA almost doesn't run flash.

Someone mentioned AirPort might be a problem? The iMac is connected via ethernet, MPA is wireless. I wonder if anything would change if I plugged the thing in. Gotta get a USB adapter though. Is it worth the $20 to try?
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Drag'nGT said:
Why not flip it and try the iMac on wireless since it has both and see what happens there.
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Why didn't I think of that?

...Seems to work fine either way on the iMac, now that I've tried it. Guess that's not my problem.
 
supposedly it may also be due to the HD spinning down to save power. people said after a reboot it works
 
acurafan said:
right, and the apple sheeple cannot understand why fortune 100 companies beside apple don't run apple company-wide, amongst other reasons...

but the 27" screen looks great hardware wise.
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Corporate America is waiting on Apple for Garage Band Enterprise Edition
 
Me1000 said:
As if we needed another reason to ditch the crap technology that is Flash! :rolleyes:
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My Mac Pro is fine but on my old faithful iBook G4 Flash Click to Flash (CtF) is a life savor. The poor thing went from working fine last year to this year over heating and freezing when CNN or Time web sites were loaded. Now with CfF installed it is working fine again. It is interesting (correction horrifying) to see the sheer number of flash windows scattered all over the web pages when CtF is running, many invisible, many over things where you would normally click for a link. The web designers are totally over doing sneaky invisible flash windows. Try CtF, if only to see these damn invisible flash windows!
 
AidenShaw said:
Funny how you make it sound like Apple's removal of existing APIs makes Adobe the bad guy.

And, just why is it that after promising Carbon x64, and even shipping it in a developer release, that Apple decided to pull that feature?

My Window 7 x64 system has executables from July 1996 that run just fine. In fact, most of the "won't run in Win7 x64" programs that I've run into are because they're 16-bit programs from 1992 or earlier.

Microsoft understands the importance of ensuring that userland programs run on a new OS. Apple doesn't, and somehow has convinced the sheeple to blame the 3rd party for Apple's mistakes.
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Since we're setting sail to anecdote-land, my dad just called and was telling me how many of his apps post 2000 do not run in Win7, even those from as late as 2005. Wow, that's awesome! :rolleyes:

The problem exists on both sides of the fence.
 
polaris20 said:
Since we're setting sail to anecdote-land, my dad just called and was telling me how many of his apps post 2000 do not run in Win7, even those from as late as 2005. Wow, that's awesome! :rolleyes:

The problem exists on both sides of the fence.
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Not trying to discredit you, but which programs don't work? I've heard mixed successes with the same program from different people.
 
No problems with flash pages (using YouTube as my example) on my old, getting weaker by the day, SR Macbook from late 2007. Even the HD/HQ links are fine. No stutter or noise in the audio/video.

BTW, I am running SL on my MB.

Maybe because I am running more things in 32 bit by design? (Video driver?)

I dunno.

I will say I love my MB but my Windows 7 x64 PC is running freaking stellar right now. :D
 
CQd44 said:
Not trying to discredit you, but which programs don't work? I've heard mixed successes with the same program from different people.
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It wouldn't be discrediting me, it's not my computer, but rather my dad's. ;)

Photoshop 7, Acrobat 6, a password vault application, VMWare 5.0 are the ones he mentioned. All post 2000, VM5 from 2005. Unfortunately he really doesn't need features of anything beyond these apps, but has to find alternatives or buy them again.

Granted this is anecdotal, but then again so is AidenShaw's post. :)
 
Unusual or Expected or Usually Unexpected?

I just played the same video on that YouTube page and my cpu speed was fluctuating between 40-50 % - This being on a C2D 2.8Ghz iMac with latest Flash Player Plug-In under Firefox 3.5.4 running Snow Leopard 10.6.1.

Playing a 720p quicktime movie in QT/Perian or VLC... Ive had better results.

Is this clearly a Flash issue? Or is this an expected result from developers intent?

Can anyone give offer results on similar configs? TYIA.
 
polaris20 said:
It wouldn't be discrediting me, it's not my computer, but rather my dad's. ;)

Photoshop 7, Acrobat 6, a password vault application, VMWare 5.0 are the ones he mentioned. All post 2000, VM5 from 2005. Unfortunately he really doesn't need features of anything beyond these apps, but has to find alternatives or buy them again.

Granted this is anecdotal, but then again so is AidenShaw's post. :)
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The only one that makes some sense to me no longer working is VMWare 5.0 because of the virtualization.

That's really too bad though. I wish I knew the specifics of maintaining compatibility for programs.

EDIT: How strange. I just got Photoshop 7 to open. Weird.
 
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