Slow mac?

[mac-collector]

I took my mac to Starbucks the other day and noticed some other guy's mac was much faster than mine. He flicked through tabs like an oil-coated knife through boiled butter. And the webpages on his were so much faster to load than mine. I timed it with my iPhone and the results were: 1.8937 seconds on his and 2.7933 on mine to load the NYTimes main page.

Do you think I need more space on my hard drive? I really hope there is another way because the SSDs are pretty expensive and I can't really fit more into my iMac.

 

[GGJstudios]

This may help: Performance Tips For Mac OS X

 

[mac-collector]

This may help: Performance Tips For Mac OS X

So no more hard disks? Wow, that's a relief. Lugging all the HDDs and the iMac can be a pain.

 

[roanmartigan]

I took my mac to Starbucks the other day and noticed some other guy's mac was much faster than mine. He flicked through tabs like an oil-coated knife through boiled butter. And the webpages on his were so much faster to load than mine. I timed it with my iPhone and the results were: 1.8937 seconds on his and 2.7933 on mine to load the NYTimes main page.

haha. That wasn't quite enough with a millisecond precision, right ? You had to give us the results with a tenth of millisecond detail.

 

[mac-collector]

haha. That wasn't quite enough with a millisecond precision, right ? You had to give us the results with a tenth of millisecond detail.

Of course, of course. How inaccurate of me. I can only give you two significant figures, on a good day.
Apparently this Counting Processes in Human Timing article agrees.

 

[TopToffee]

Are you saying the stopwatch on the iPhone isn't accurate?

The stopwatch will be perfectly accurate. Your ability to operate it with 1/10000th of a second precision on the other hand......

 

[flatfoot]

I took my mac to Starbucks the other day and noticed some other guy's mac was much faster than mine. He flicked through tabs like an oil-coated knife through boiled butter. And the webpages on his were so much faster to load than mine. I timed it with my iPhone and the results were: 1.8937 seconds on his and 2.7933 on mine to load the NYTimes main page.

Do you think I need more space on my hard drive? I really hope there is another way because the SSDs are pretty expensive and I can't really fit more into my iMac.

Maybe it's just the other guy's Mac being a bit newer, thus faster, than yours.

 

[mac-collector]

Maybe it's just the other guy's Mac being a bit newer, thus faster, than yours.

Ah, you're probably right. Ageing hardware + software is probably the main cause.