ITunes 10 is a massive resource hog

After updating to iTunes 10, I noticed that my computer was running considerably slower than usual. iTunes 9 used about 2% system resources when playing music and minimized to the dock.
So after checking Activity Monitor, I discovered that iTunes 10, when under the same conditions, uses a whopping 20% of my system resources. I **** you not. What is the deal here? It is really slowing down a lot of my other applications, and it's getting to the point where I just hook up my iPod to my speakers to play music instead.

The same thing happens to me. My GPU clock speeds go way up as soon as I open iTunes and go between any of the major pages (library cover flow, iTunes store, etc). One time I found my GPU temp at a whopping 70C after using iTunes...I can run many graphics-intensive games at max settings and only hit a temp of 75C. This is a problem that needs to be addressed. I'm using an EVGA GTX 470 btw. Does anyone know how to report bugs to Apple?

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Last edited by serdotlinecho (2014-01-20 13:45:55)

sbfreak wrote:Have you tried firefox-nightly ? I don't have the same problem even though the newsfeed makes my cpu sometimes go nuts.
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Last edited by serdotlinecho (2014-01-20 13:47:08)

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