I;m running SL although I must admit that there are more beach balls with snow leopard. But, no problems with Flash, screen, nor sound. I'm thinking about going back to Leopard because it just worked!
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Apple's New 27-Inch iMacs Experiencing Performance Issues?
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I;m running SL although I must admit that there are more beach balls with snow leopard. But, no problems with Flash, screen, nor sound. I'm thinking about going back to Leopard because it just worked!
I have a 21.5" middle of the road iMac. Flash on CNN.com pegs my CPU at 100%, and skips like mad.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Booting into the 64-bit Kernel seemed to help quite a bit. Haven't had the problem yet. We'll see after the systems been up for a few hours...
I just came back from the apple store in zurich and sorry to say that but this new Imacs are pure crap!!!!
1.) I tested the model with 3.06 GHz 4GB RAM blablabla....1 stupid Flash Animation made the whole machine going mad (CPU 96%)
2.) If you move the safari browser window around from one side of the desktop to the other side the CPU Load also goes up to 93%
3.) Websites ...try to scroll up and down...it looks like the system can't handle that 100% perfect......it does not run smoothly
There were no applications in the background....just nothing.
WTF....sorry
1.) I tested the model with 3.06 GHz 4GB RAM blablabla....1 stupid Flash Animation made the whole machine going mad (CPU 96%)
2.) If you move the safari browser window around from one side of the desktop to the other side the CPU Load also goes up to 93%
3.) Websites ...try to scroll up and down...it looks like the system can't handle that 100% perfect......it does not run smoothly
There were no applications in the background....just nothing.
WTF....sorry
I think Linux fanboys are worse, you know, "Free is better!", "Everyone can use Linux!", "I can get x for free and it's as good as y!" etc.
And there are Windows fanboys too. There's fanboyism everywhere. And quite frankly, excluding crazy-ignorants, the Apple fanboys are the most reasonable of them.
And they can perfectly work on Macs...so what's the problem? For many people working is better on Macs (especially when it is media-related, and that is work too,)
glossywhite
macrumors 65816
I think that you'll find your COMMENT is pure crap, not the iMac. It is the OS causing these problems, not the hardware. Fact.
oh I can belive it's True.
Having a late-08 MBP and recently upgrading (downgrading) to SL, I see nothing but terrible performance on sites heavy with flash. Both cores are max'd at 85-90% capacity, and at times I cannot switch windows, or even call up the 'Force Quit' dialog box. Not sure if it's Flash-centric or flash+safari since latest Firefox behaves around 50% capacity and I have system responsiveness.
Oh, btw, i end up having to kill/terminate everything else if I plan on accessing flash heavy sites so only thing running is Finder (well and other core OS services).
Not happy w/ SL - performance suxs, constant app crashes; finder randomly recycles - ready to toss the whole kit-n-caboodle out the door and go back to XP/Win7.
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Having a late-08 MBP and recently upgrading (downgrading) to SL, I see nothing but terrible performance on sites heavy with flash. Both cores are max'd at 85-90% capacity, and at times I cannot switch windows, or even call up the 'Force Quit' dialog box. Not sure if it's Flash-centric or flash+safari since latest Firefox behaves around 50% capacity and I have system responsiveness.
Oh, btw, i end up having to kill/terminate everything else if I plan on accessing flash heavy sites so only thing running is Finder (well and other core OS services).
Not happy w/ SL - performance suxs, constant app crashes; finder randomly recycles - ready to toss the whole kit-n-caboodle out the door and go back to XP/Win7.
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Mainyehc
macrumors 6502a
Apple working on a fix
Ah, it looks like I may be able to get myself a Core i5 27'' iMac before the end of the year after all... According to AppleInsider, the latest 10.6.2 beta will fix the issues with AirPort (and maybe Flash as well?)...
Ah, it looks like I may be able to get myself a Core i5 27'' iMac before the end of the year after all... According to AppleInsider, the latest 10.6.2 beta will fix the issues with AirPort (and maybe Flash as well?)...
BobbyCat
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Not happy w/ SL - performance suxs, constant app crashes; finder randomly recycles - ready to toss the whole kit-n-caboodle out the door and go back to XP/Win7.
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I was pissed too, so I finally got back to Leopard 10.5.8 and it's all fine again, as it used to.
A number of third party developers have still not managed to make the transition to 64-bit SL for some of their apps. This includes Adobe's Shockwave FlashPlayer and Unsanity's FruitMenu and WindowShade.
It's cool in 10.5.8 land and I'll stay there until there's a WindowShade for SL.
No need to drop OS X. Morover, Win 7 works great in Leopard with either VMWare or Parallels. 😉
DMann
macrumors 601
If this were true, I would have ordered a Troll Touch Mac a long time ago, circa 1987,
before touch screens were even available for PCs.
I have absolutely no desire to reach my arm(s) up toward a perpendicular screen, situated 3' in back of the keyboard,
as this would grow tiresome after a short while. A tablet, conversely, would be a preferable multi-touch input device,
since it could easily be used facing upward. IMO, large, upright touch screens seem regressive, in this regard. A multi-touch
mouse would be a more sensible and preferable input solution for a large, upright screen. (not to mention that cleaning a 10"
surface would invariably be easier than that of a 27" vertically oriented screen - go figure)
AidenShaw
macrumors P6
Judging from the prevalence of fingerprints on many monitors, your 3' distance seems to be larger than average.
I agree that a "touch-only" system would be tiring.
However, touch as another available input paradigm in addition to keyboard/mouse is very handy. Poking the "submit" button on a web page is quicker and more natural than
- Find your mouse
- Move the mouse so that you can find the cursor
- Move the cursor over the "submit" button
- Press the mouse in the correct way to register an MB1 event
DMann
macrumors 601
I prefer to keep electromagnetic radiation exposure at minimum levels, when possible.
As would be for any vertically mounted multi-touch screen, while seated in a chair.
Never lost it - the mouse remains under my hand while working with graphics, sound editing, movie editing, or submitting info on the web. After typing, the mouse remains kinesthetically
at a much shorter distance than any random locations on the monitor, a surface which I prefer to keep free of finger prints and smudges.
Not that much of an issue, being that the table top functions as a virtual monitor while using a mouse. This will soon be the case for the muti-touch mouse itself, whereby one
will be able to move the curser via scrolling gestures. Besides, I'm more willing to utilize a multi-touch mouse as a virtual monitor for selecting buttons in favor of exerting the extra
energy necessary for lifting up and reaching out with the full arm, against gravity, to hunt and peck at random places on the surface of the monitor, all the while lacing it with fingerprints.
It sure is nice not having to lift my arm, away from the keyboard and mouse, to reach up and out for buttons.
In the end, the mouse solution requires far less energy exertion. At the end of the day, the time and effort saved, in not having to thoroughly Windex a 30" Cinema Display,
is well worth bypassing the need to reach up and poke a monitor. The cinema display happens to be a matte screen - cleaning it on a daily basis would be a RPITA.
um hate to break it to you but 'media-related' work is now handled better on windows. fact: photoshop 64-bit can only be run on windows (at least until cs5).
A touch computer outside of a tablet holds no appeal to me whatsoever, as I don't really care to have to fatigue associated with it. Even the stuff that would be cool, I'd much rather just use a Wacom.
A trackball and a Wacom for me would be better than a touchscreen.
A trackball and a Wacom for me would be better than a touchscreen.
DMann
macrumors 601
I mean it's great there's that option for people on the Windows side, I just don't miss it at all on the Mac side. The fact that there are HP PC's similar to the iMac but with touch just isn't a selling point. I'm not sure what it would be good for.
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
Supposedly there's a kitchen PC market that those easel style HP TouchSmart appeals to.
MorphingDragon
macrumors 603
http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/s...hoslp/psg/desktops/All-in-One_PCs/300z_series
$800 for a greasy computer. Hmmm.....no thanks.
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
DMann
macrumors 601
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
Bad example and that wouldn't be an entrée...and our next featured entrée will be.... eh....ew!
I can understand the desire for a computer in the kitchen with a TV tuner in it. Just get the Windows Media Center remote and you can touch when you need it.
MorphingDragon
macrumors 603
DMann
macrumors 601
Yes, indeed it would be an entrée - however, it is pretty heavily masked and obscured by multiple layers of grease from the kitchen.
This, would then, defeat the purpose of having a touch screen in the first place.
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
A TV doesn't run Windows Media Center, Hulu, etc.
You're usually standing up in the kitchen. A wireless keyboard and mouse would work but why do that when you can touch/tap your way through today's weather and news while you drink your coffee?