Mac Clients take an age to open, PC much swifter?

Any ideas?
our mac clients, bound to the server, can take an age to open folder in sharepoint - upwards of 70 secs in some instances...
(Granted there may be (say) 200 folders representing individual cases, most holding 4 jpegs, a few may contain 20 jpegs), BUT PC opens the sharepoint almost instantly... usually about 20 macs sharing over AFP and about 4 PCs over SMB at any one time.
If one knows the job number, a search will find it almost instantly on the mac, but sometimes one just has to drill throught the various folders and this is painfully slow.
Why are PC users able to embarass me!!!?:??
Once a directory/Folder has finally opened it will be readily accessible till one logs off

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