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

[space1nvaders]

Flash sucks

Everything Flash does should have been built into the browser by now. It's almost 2010 and animation should be a standard feature.

 

[AppleFan360]

Flash pages tend to crash Safari on my Mac. Thank goodness for Click-To-Flash. When I turn it on, Safari screems!

 

[carmenodie]

I've seen the new iMacs last week at my local Apple store and they are freaking awesome. I was on the 27 iMac, what a beast, went to Apple.com and watched some movie trailers. DAMN! DAMN! DAMN! Nary a problem.Nary a hiccup. Screw flash and the the haters. I'm coming into some cash soon and I will be buying the 27 inch iMac by Feb 2010.

 

[muskratboy]

It is simply impossible to test every single hardware/software/application combination for every possibility.

well yeah... but NEW MAC + SAFARI + FLASH doesn't really fall into the "every single" category.

that's more like day one, 3rd thing tested sorta category.

one piece of hardware and their own browser on the most popular plug-in is not really that difficult a test, ya know?

 

[Amdahl]

Time for Leopard!

This is why I asked if these machines were usable -- can they run Leopard? -- on the thread announcing their introduction.

These machines are Beta HD Macs that can't play Blu-ray.

 

[zen]

Aside from my MBP's fans running at like 300,000,000 RPM, Flash plays just fine.

Seriously, though, something should be done about it. Flash is the bane of the internet, and Adobesoft doesn't seem to be too in a hurry to fix it because they're far too busy churning out bloatware.

Hehheh.

Flash is fine under Leopard. Flash sucks under Snow Leopard (to answer the person asking why it's fine on a 2002 PowerMac - it's because it's not running Snow Leopard!).

 

[lanceh5]

This will be fixed?

I just ordered a new iMac i7 quad core, ships in November. What is flash used for besides youtube? I probably use flash now but unaware when that occurs.

 

[50548]

Aside from my MBP's fans running at like 300,000,000 RPM, Flash plays just fine.

Seriously, though, something should be done about it. Flash is the bane of the internet, and Adobesoft doesn't seem to be too in a hurry to fix it because they're far too busy churning out bloatware.

Just download Click2Flash and be happy...this is the single most important download I've done in the last 12 months...absolutely essential for any sensible Mac user.

 

[macinfojunkie]

Is it possible for Apple to release a product these days without many users experiencing some kind of "issue" within days or weeks or release? QA seems to be going down hill fast.

 

[Eidorian]

What is flash used for besides youtube?

Everywhere, I'm serious.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

I don't get it... Engadget is just a blog. If we're going to report on blogs, why not report on our very own user forums?

 

[Jelite]

I don't know about performance issues, some people must have brain issues if they cant see and hear that video stuttering.

 

[50548]

I just ordered a new iMac i7 quad core, ships in November. What is flash used for besides youtube? I probably use flash now but unaware when that occurs.

Youtube is already replacing many of its videos with H.264 and HTML5...worry not.

 

[harodude]

MBP had the infamous Click/Beep/Pause...

The iMac has to endure something, like this...

I still have hope that Apple will resolve everything, Like they already do, and we end up with perfect products!

 

[Krafty]

doesn't flash play slowly on all macs?

Indeed. On both my 06 MacBook and 09 Mini, it freezes and skips occasionally.

 

[CompanionCube]

Flash player is garbage. When will people wake up and stop using it.

 

[Macallan82]

Not surprised.

This has typically been the case for Apple's first generation of their newly updated hardware. I bought the aluminum iMac the first week they were released and then Apple issued a firmware update for the graphics card, which rendered it useless. It would freeze 2 minutes after startup. Does anyone remember that.

This is unfortunate for people that made the switch by purchasing these new machines. Hang in there guys.

 

[sziehr]

sorry but adobe need to just write a better flash plugin. I mean at this point apple could write one faster then they are getting it out there. The linux plugin i bet works better than the mac one. I am not sure what the deal is with adobe they are draging there feet on this whole new flash thing that well does not eat 200% resources. That is right both cores maxed out. that is like 4.8 gighertz for me i know there is OS overhead but come on. I mean my old 1.8 gighertz ibm laptop with crap ware aka windows plays it better it is all about plugin not about hardware. At most this is an ATI driver issue hence people with nvida are having no issues. This is what you get for mixing nvida and ATI in the same case chaos.

 

[Ambrose Chapel]

Just download Click2Flash and be happy...this is the single most important download I've done in the last 12 months...absolutely essential for any sensible Mac user.

I agree completely - since discovering Click to Flash my browsing experience has been much more enjoyable. sadly, it also showed how much of the web is dependent on flash...

 

[tempusfugit]

All I can say is that SL made me find, install, and fall in love with ClickToFlash!

Wow! I was wondering if there was a way to do what clicktoflash does on mac. I love that my Ubuntu box does the same thing by default, and always wondered if I could get that working on my mac.

Thanks!


PS, who besides me thinks that its absolutely ridiculous that Microsoft Silverlight works so much better than flash on macs?

Shame on Adobe. I don't even feel like using their products sometimes... but alas I must. Dreamweaver is just sooooooooo much better than iWeb, which has to be the worst editor out there.

Macromedia would have never let this happen.

 

[50548]

I agree completely - since discovering Click to Flash my browsing experience has been much more enjoyable. sadly, it also showed how much of the web is dependent on flash...

That doesn't bother me at all, because I can always click on those rare instances where Flash is useful...90% of the time it's just about crappy drop-down ads that you NEVER wanna see, ridiculous auto-playing video and music and pop-ups...definitely no, thanks.

Edit: I am 68010!!!

 

[daneoni]

Did not see anything in the video.

Well, after viewing the pointless video I couldn't see anything wrong.

You two should've gone to specsavers

 

[Jayomat]

ADOBE IS DEAD. AND SO IS MS.

Could you pleaaase stop saying "X is dead" (MS most of the time) in nearly everything you post?
Sigh...crazy fanboys

Amen!!!

 

[Moonjumper]

I went to the Apple Store in Leicester UK yesterday to check out the 27". It seemed to be running much more slowly than my old white 24" iMac. I closed down everything then tried navigating in iTunes, it was still slow in responding. Maybe something was still running in the background? The Magic Mouse didn't seem to be responding too well, but I don't know if this was down to the iMac or the mouse.

 

[Digital Dude]

Not being familiar with the band or music in the video, I couldn’t determine where the problem is. What is/was it doing that indicates a "flash" problem?
Regards,
Dan