Safari Take Forever on the Internet

I've just upgraded to a G5 tower, with 8g of memory, and 2.6 ghz ... and it still takes forever for Safari to load anything that has active ads or plugins. Go to Instapundit's page ... it's just typeface and ads and even with this new setup it takes on average 11 seconds to load, and often hangs. (Safari 5.0 with updates, btw)
My pal's Dell laptop BLAZES through page loading on the Internet. And it's four years old. His Windows setup loads You Tube videos lickety split. The G5 lumbers along stumbling and halting through the download and plays the video in halting stuttering chunks (cable interface at 8.0 mbs)
This is depressing. What's the point of continuing to spend money on higher Macs if they won't work with the WWW? Heck, my daughter's iPhone plays You Tube right off the internet faster than this!
What's wrong?

HI,
for Safari to load anything that has active ads or plugins.
Safari plugins could be the glitch.
And try uninstalling the reinstalling a new copy of Flash.
Uninstall Flash
Install the most recent version of Flash here.
Now repair disk permissions...
Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
If reinstalling Flash didn't help, go here for trouble shooting 3rd party plugins or input managers which might be causing the problem. Safari: Add-ons may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit or have performance issues
Also, go to ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari and move the "cache.db" file to the Trash. Relaunch Safari.
My pal's Dell laptop BLAZES through page loading on the Internet.
You are talking about two different computers with two completely different configurations.
I've just upgraded to a G5 tower, with 8g of memory, and 2.6 ghz
Sorry to say the PowerPC can't compete with an Intel Mac regardless of RAM.
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