iTunes on PowerBook G4

[PMR]

Hi.
I'm scratching my head since i saw itunes consuming 12% of cpu when doing nothing!
iTunes in my imac and mb keeps at 0%, why the hell this doesn't happen in the powerbook?

Version 8 in the three macs.

Any suggestions?

 

[alphaod]

It's very normal; iTunes is processor intensive for the older PPC processors and less for the Intel simply because the Intel processors are more efficient and are faster.

 

[TEG]

Exactly. I use iTunes on a PBG4 667 and without the 1GB of RAM my system would be killed by iTunes.

TEG

 

[PMR]

Well, that came through my mind also, but something isn't right. Let's see. For much efficiency that intel chips have, 12% usage in ppc, could be like 3 or 4% on intel. And that's not right. With the open .app (without playing) and hidden, activity monitor reports between 0 and 0,3% cpu on intel which cannot translate to 11 to 13% in a 1.5Ghz ppc. An open app with no activity and no background processes shouldn't use any cpu. Isn't this true??
And more; now iTunes is playing and using 9%; less than when not playing!!!