New iMacs slow to open programs compared to previous model?
Hi all,
I have noticed something while looking at the new iMacs on display in store:
While a previous-model (just superseded) 24" 3.0g ghz dual-core opens iMovie in 4 seconds, the new models repeatedly take 40 seconds or more to do the very same thing. On different machines...in different stores...same thing happens.
When questioned why, the assistant looked at me uncomfortably and said "Yes, I have learned Apple has supplied us with demo machines installed with the incorrect display drivers..." Huh? Demo machines? Wrong display drivers?
I think he was trying to have a lend of me...surely (a) Apple doesn't supply demo machines to the outlets and, (b) they wouldn't install graphics drivers separately to the rest of the system software.
Anyway...has anyone else noticed the slow performance of the new iMacs when opening programs?
Cheers.
myhighway, what's your point in relation to my original observation?
What I was saying was that it was interesting that the new models were - in my experience - quite a bit slower than the older model. I had experienced this in two different stores. Had anyone noticed/experienced this and what could be the reason? I just thought the sales guys explanation was a bit flaky at best. I was making a simple observation...no biggy.
Whatever the reason for whatever Apple does (who cares?) it was interesting to note that the newer models appeared slower than the old.
Oh and by the way, I have been a very proud Mac owner since my first in 2003. Will never buy anything else but a Mac now, unless I really have to. So I am already - well and truly - a mac convert.
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Oct 24 19:20:08 process prl_vm_app[617] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 1062; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 47809471
Oct 24 19:23:01 process prl_vm_app[617] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 1063; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 47993665
Oct 24 19:26:45 process prl_vm_app[617] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 1074; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 48234384
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Is anyone else's new iMac slower?
Hi
I have recently upgraded to the new Intel iMac, and, although it has greater specs across the board, it definitely seems slower than my G5 iMac with lesser specs. When switching applications, it's particularly bad - almost like it's sticky. It's a bummer to get a new machine that is slower! I have also heard there is some compatability issue with the Intel stuff. Anyone got any clues?
Thanks a million.You have to be aware of the fact that some applications will be running in emulated mode (Rosetta). These are the programs that are written for the old PPC series chips (G3, G4 and G5). You will see a slow down for those applications as its having to emulate the PPC cpu on an Intel cpu. For applications that are written to work with both cpu's (PPC and Intel) the software is refered to as Universal code and its that software where you will see a lot of improvement. It will take time for all software to be rewritten into universal code (and some may never be converted as it will run okay in emulation). Right now all of the core OS X and iLife applications are universal and on my iMac 20 intel machince I can see a big difference in the performance between my old G4 mac.
One item which may cause slow downs is the amount of ram you have, the emulation software Rosetta really likes a lot of ram and I suggest at least 1gig to get good performance with non universal software. You can check if software is universal or PPC by doing a get info on the icon and under the General section you will see at the top the program KIND it will say something like "Application (PowerPC)" or "Application (Universal)"
I havent seen any slowdown when switching applications however the only thing that i have seen be a little slower is when i select the right mouse button it takes a little longer to come up with the menu that it used to on my previous G4 Mac but its not really an issue as its not really that long.
Compatability seems so far to be 100% for me in that everything that I've tried running on it works and that includes the vast majority of my older programs. The main issue you may have is for applications that ran under Classic mode on your G5 as there is no Classic mode on the new Intel macs.
good luck and enjoy your new intel mac. Its a very good machine and I even have it dual booting into Win XP to play the odd game of Battlefield 2 but for everything else (iLife, Surfing, emails) i use Mac os X. -
Looking to buy a new iMac to do Open Uni course using Windows
Hello,
I've been using Mac since summer of 2007 when we got a MacBook Pro. In October I'm starting an Open University course and will require to buy a new computer that runs Windows in order to do this course.
As I've now become familiar with Mac I am somewhat loathe to buy another PC and have learned that it is now possible to run Windows on a Mac using Bootcamp.
Last week I visited my local Apple Reseller (we don't have Apple Stores in Switzerland yet) to get some advice about this. I told the lady behind the desk I wanted to buy a 24" 3.06GHz iMac but she wasn't much help and found her computer screen more interesting than trying to sell me a 2600chf computer. She wasn't able to tell me where I could get Windows from to run on a Mac, nor how much it would cost. Infact she couldn't tell me very much as unfortunately I'm not 100% familiar with the Apple product range, I never knew the exact specifications of the machine I want to buy. It was pretty much a wasted trip and her efforts to get me to hand over my green were seriously limited.
Hopefully someone on here can give me a bit of advice about running Windows on a Mac, or at least point me to a place where it's already been discussed.
The main things I want to know are: How much is Windows for a Mac? Is it as easy to use as all the Mac applications I have become familiar with? Can I buy an iMac with Windows pre-installed, including adequate virus protection and internet security?
CheersThere is no such thing as Windows for a Mac. You simply purchase any Windows installer package from any software vendor that sells it. See Boot Camp 2.0- Which versions of Microsoft Windows are supported? to find out which Windows versions are installable under Boot Camp if that's the method you decide to use to run Windows. See below for other options.
Windows on Intel Macs
There are presently several alternatives for running Windows on Intel Macs.
1. Install the Apple Boot Camp software. Purchase Windows XP w/Service Pak 2 or Vista. Follow instructions in the Boot Camp documentation on installation of Boot Camp, creating Driver CD, and installing Windows. Boot Camp enables you to boot the computer into OS X or Windows.
2. Parallels Desktop for Mac and Windows XP, Vista Business, or Vista Ultimate. Parallels is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
3. VM Fusionand Windows XP, Vista Business, or Vista Ultimate. VM Fusion is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
4. CrossOver which enables running many Windows applications without having to install Windows. The Windows applications can run concurrently with OS X.
5. VirtualBox is a new Open Source freeware virtual machine such as VM Fusion and Parallels that was developed by Solaris. It is not yet fully developed for the Mac - some features are not yet implemented - but it does work otherwise.
6. Last is Q. Q is a freeware emulator that is compatible with Intel Macs. It is much slower than the virtualization software, Parallels and VM Fusion.
Note that Parallels and VM Fusion can also run other operating systems such as Linux, Unix, OS/2, Solaris, etc. There are performance differences between dual-boot systems and virtualization. The latter tend to be a little slower (not much) and do not provide the video performance of the dual-boot system.
See MacTech.com's Virtualization Benchmarking for comparisons of Boot Camp, Parallels, and VM Fusion.
Boot Camp is only available with Leopard. The Boot Camp Beta that was used with Tiger has expired and is no longer available for use. So contrary to the other poster's comment, Boot Camp isn't truly "free." You must purchase Leopard to get it.
You can visit the Apple Online Store website to learn about the various Apple models, find downloadable manuals, machine specifications, tutorials, etc.
Retailers generally do not sell Macs with Windows installed. There you are on your own. -
Relatively new iMac slow and stutters all of a sudden
I've been through all of the forums (I think), but nothing i've found seems to do the trick. Please bear with me, because i know that this is a common post, but I'm frustrated.
My symptoms are:
1. Machine seems to have intermittent freezes and spinny ball. Not total lockup, just stuttering.
2. Programs take forever to launch (compared to before)
3. File saves take forever (compared to before)
4. ALL video and motion apps stutter (quicktime, youtube, eyeTV, moving cursor on garageband, final cut)
5. Takes forever to shutdown/restart (compared to before)
The machine is still usable, for the most part, but NOT usable for anything video at this point.
My machine specs:
1. 2.8 GHz 24" iMac (mid 2008)
2. 4G RAM
Things I've tried to diagnose or fix it:
1. Restart: didn't make a difference
2. Repair permission on disk: didn't make a difference
3. Disk repair on boot volume: didn't make a difference
4. Ran the cocktail system and disk maintenance scripts: didn't make a difference
5. Monitored activity with Activity monitor and unix "ps" during the problems: didn't see anything stick out
6. Looked through the console and system logs: nothing stuck out
7. Have run the h/w diagnostics from the OS X disk: no issues
8. Have reset PRAM/NVRAM: Had a scare here, because i did this, and then the machine would NOT start back up. Just got the white screen (pre-apple logo and spinner), and it sat there forever. Had to do #9 below to get it back.
9. Reset the SMC: Well, it allowed me to actually boot the thing, but didn't make any performance difference.
10. Performed general cleanup of the HDD to purge anything not needed: no help
11. Drank Aventinus Weizen-Eisbock: Helped me, but not the machine.
Notice I have not yet tried to reinstall OS. I can't imagine why that would work. The problem here should also have nothing to do with any recently installed app, since nothing has been installed. The only thing that may have been installed would have been an Apple update (OS or other). Not sure i can pinpoint this to an Apple update because I don't when exactly the problems started in relation to the updates.
Any ideas, or places to look?
thanks{quote:}Notice I have not yet tried to reinstall OS. I can't imagine why that would work. The problem here should also have nothing to do with any recently installed app, since nothing has been installed. The only thing that may have been installed would have been an Apple update (OS or other). Not sure i can pinpoint this to an Apple update because I don't when exactly the problems started in relation to the updates.{quote}
Hi John
Before doing a Reinstall or Archive and Install you might want to first download and install the 10.5.7 Combo Update to see if that makes a difference. The 10.5.7 Combo Update can solve minor issues within the OS X and would insure that your software is completely up to date.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx1057comboupdate .html
If however you decide or wish to reinstall the OS X, an Archive and Install will save your data where as a Reinstall will wipe all your current data.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1545
I also noted that a MacBook just showed up in your profile. If it's a PPC MacBook and you migrated to the Intel, you maybe having software compatibility issues.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350
Dennis -
CS4 Extended VERY Slow to Open Program!!!???
I just dropped a very large sum of $ to purchase CS4 Extended and the #$*@# thing is taking over 5 minutes to open!!! (Yes, I've timed it.) Once open it appears to run fine, although I've yet to put it through it's paces much. The obvious answer would be that I have an undersized slow computer. However, that is far from the case. I have a brand new Dell laptop with plenty of 'horsepower', much more than the system requirements listed on the outside of the box. It does the same thing with both the 64 bit and 32 bit version.
Here are a few of the "vitals" on the laptop:
Operating System: Windows Vista 64-bit Version: 6.0 Service Pack 1
Processor Core Duo2: 2493 MHz
Video Card: VIDI GeForce 8600M 250MB GT/PCI/SSE2
Built-in memory: 4093 MB
Image cache levels: 4
Hard Drive: 500G
Is anyone else having this problem??? If so, what have you done to solve it. Needless to say, I'm VERY VERY disappointed at this point. I had PS7 before and should have stuck with that!
thanks for your helpPROBLEM SOLVED: After several hrs. with Adobe and Microsoft on the phone over the last two weeks, we soloved the problem. Adobe never could figure out what the solution was. However, when I installed Vista Service Pack #2 everything started to work just fine. Now CS4 loads in about 10 seconds, like it should!
Both Microsoft and Adobe came to the conclusion that something was not working with my Dell XPS 1530 NIVIDA video driver and Photoshop. Neither one know exaclty why SP2 soloved the problem. Adobe is going to do some more research with Dell and NIVIDA on the issue, at least that's what he said he was going to do. Apparently I'm not the first Dell XPS 1530 with this issue.
Thanks for everyone's help! -
Firefox has started using up my available memory significantly slowing other open programs.
When I am doing research or writing I have Firefox open with multiple tabs running as well as Microsoft Office applications. Within a short period of time, the entire computer slows down. System processes show 100% of CPU used with Firefox eating up about 80%. When I close Firefox and then disable that process, all other programs and computer speed return to normal. I'm only using 1/3 of the available memory. I use Windows 7 and have 3g of physical memory.
Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
See:
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Any Idea How Temperatures Of New Imacs Compare With Previous Models ?
Has anyone had a chance to test or compare the operating temperatures of the new and old models ?
In particular I would like to know how the new entry 2.4GHz compares with the old 2.0GHz.Found my own answer...
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Gonna be hot! Looks like they will be able to run all the most demanding games on highest settings. Sweet deal.
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