Why is my new iMac 2.16 Core 2 slower than my eMac 1.25?

[Nym]

Mac's are good for everything else, not OSX, I run my games in Windows via Bootcamp and they run great it's still a Mac...

I'm not flaming you, we're just having a conversation, it's healthy to discuss different points of view IMO, one chould choose what he likes best, so if you like AMD then go for it, it's good that we all have a choice

And as a designer, I see Apple's work as "brilliant" in every way, I don't think it's feminine in any way :O It's the perfect "form follows function" rule in every little thing they do.
I bought a book from Taschen named "Designing the 21st Century" (which is a book about the greatest contemporary designers) and with no surprise, Jonathan Ive and the Apple Design Team are there, and believe me, it's not that easy to get your name in that book.
Do you know any other company that offers the simplicity that Apple does? I like the Apple Design crew because they leave out everything that you don't need, look at the iMac, it's one of the most well designed objects I've ever seen :O

 

[fiercetiger224]

Each OS is good, K I like using either one, and yes we have 1PC also in our lab for the occational PC File, which since Quark 7 came out PC files have been more and more common.

As for packaging. The designs Apple comes up with are (Aside from the G5s) very feminine in design. And I'm not a girl or gay, so it doesn't really appeal to me at least.

No more bashing ok? Not from me or anyone else, this argument is going nowhere. I apologize to you & it just keeps going.

The only reason I feel the way I do is because of loyalty. I'm loyal to AMD because they gave Intel a run for their money for a long time. I like microsoft because their OS runs games and emulators perfectly. I'm really into oldschool gaming so having SNES emulators, and Genesis emulators is important. And don't suggest any Mac emulators, I've looked long and hard, their all really buggy ports of older PC versions of the emulators. Also Nintendo. Rather off subject a bit, but I've supported Nintendo, and only Nintendo since I was like 5years old. My loyalties run deep, and a pretty box or pretty OS isn't gonna change the way any of us feel. You Mac guys are touchy you know that? I said a couple of things wrong and it's just snowballing. Drop it, & let it go. I think the origional question was answered already. Let's let this thread die K?

Macs designs are not "feminine," but more "elegant" or "charming" if you will. Well, if you don't wanna get bashed all the time, then don't come to a Mac forum stating that Apple sucks, etc. This is a Mac Forum, NOT a PC forum.

It's funny how you support Nintendo. They're like the Apple of the gaming world. As for the emulators, Windows does have better emulators. But you wanna know why? It's because more people have developed emulators on the platform. I guarantee you if more people developed emulators for Mac OS X than Windows, then you'd see the same thing.

 

[cherfizzle]

I just received my new 20" iMac 2.16 Core 2 Duo. I love it, or want to love it, but I've noticed that it's really quite slow when doing things like switching applications, starting new ones, and sometimes just completing basic tasks like opening a file from Word or getting the print window to open. It took no less than 15 seconds to switch over to Dreamweaver, for example, and all I had open was Word, iChat, and Entourage. That's really not a lot.

The hard drive seems to be running constantly as it completes these tasks. This was one of the reasons I bought the computer - I hated these annoying little slow downs that occurred when doing basic tasks. (don't get me wrong, when I'm encoding video, this machine blows my old eMac away).

Is this because I'm still at 1 gig? My eMac had 768 MB and wasn't this slow. Does the Intel processor demand more RAM? I was hoping to hold off a bit.

Any ideas?

its rosetta like everyone else said
rosetta got a performance boost in 10.4.8 so make sure your updated

 

[xPismo]

As for packaging. The designs Apple comes up with are (Aside from the G5s) very feminine in design. And I'm not a girl or gay, so it doesn't really appeal to me at least....my loyalties run deep... Drop it, & let it go.

Yup.

Oh man, why do I have to be 'a girl or gay' to like clean design? I never get those kind of comments. The G5's were a mess anyway. Apple really needs to look at the size of the MP's, as they ate the whole cake while we wern't looking.

 

[SBleed@mchsi.co]

Macs designs are not "feminine," but more "elegant" or "charming" if you will. Well, if you don't wanna get bashed all the time, then don't come to a Mac forum stating that Apple sucks, etc. This is a Mac Forum, NOT a PC forum.

Elegant and charming sounds pretty girly to me sry.
And uh, I'm trying not to bash Apple K? I have said in the majority of my posts that both OS's are good in their own right.

It's funny how you support Nintendo. They're like the Apple of the gaming world. As for the emulators, Windows does have better emulators. But you wanna know why? It's because more people have developed emulators on the platform. I guarantee you if more people developed emulators for Mac OS X than Windows, then you'd see the same thing.

I kinda like to root forthe underdog, and I remember when Nintendo was on top so I want those days to come back again. ****it whatever.

 

[eXan]

Mac's are good for everything else, not OSX, I run my games in Windows via Bootcamp and they run great it's still a Mac...

I said Mac arent for gamers, I didnt say it could not run games.

Gamers are people who consatnly change/upgrade their computers when faster components are released. They need a fast single/dual core CPU and a wicked fast video card (both to be upgrabable). They also like to overclock. Mac isnt built for such things, getting a Mac Pro for gaming is even worse than getting a PC with Windows for creative work. You dont need two $1000 dual-core CPUs, 8 RAM slots, 4 hard drive bays and two Gigabit Ethernet to run games. A waste of money.

 

[Sequence]

If you guys are using Photoshop alot on an Intel Mac, I suggest running it in Boot Camp so it runs natively... At least until Adobe releases CS3.

My 2 cent...

 

[bousozoku]

If you guys are using Photoshop alot on an Intel Mac, I suggest running it in Boot Camp so it runs natively... At least until Adobe releases CS3.

My 2 cent...

That's a lot of cost to buy Windows and Photoshop for Windows or for you to transfer your Photoshop licence to Windows and then, Adobe asks why you're transferring it back to Mac OS X later.