FH is less responsive on new iMac

Hello all,
I have a new iMac and I find that FHMXa is less less
responsive than on my
old G5. There is a slight delay when selecting points and
object, and also
when moving them. Does anyone know is there is a "fix" for
this?
Thanks
Wasn't Mel Gibson screaming FREEHAND at the end of the movie
Braveheart!

Colin,
I am using Leopard and it's all up to date. The iMac has 4GB
of ram. Even
so, FH runs less responsive than on my old G5.
in article fs64q8$8u3$[email protected], Colinbrowne at
[email protected] wrote on 3/23/08 12:42 PM:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> I take it you're using Leopard then? I recently bought a
new Macbook with
> Leopard and Freehand is running fine on it. Have you
tried doing all your OS
> updates? That's the first thing I did.
>
> I'd be interested to know if it helps, also I would
recommend bumping up the
> ram to maximum which I think is 2G on the iMacs, it'll
cost a bit but the
> difference is astounding.
>
> Cheers,
> Colin

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