Solution for slow attachment downloads

I see a fair number of forum posts regarding slow Mail attachment downloads for .Mac accounts after moving to OSX 10.4.x from 10.3.x
I had the same problem and here’s what I did to address it. Your mileage may vary.
In Mail, crate a new account to access your .Mac mail account, but instead of connecting with the IMAP or .Mac settings, use POP.
This change, on my system, allows attachments to download at the speed of my internet connection.
Branwell
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

It sure would be great it that were true. I find however its not at least on my workstation. My workstation Processors are only 2ghz. Mixer brushes seem to be multi-threaded for I see at least half the process are active when I use a mixer brush like the round fan stiff thin bristles. I see quite a bit activity on 12 processors.. However if I have two layers. My Canon 1D4 16MP image in 16bit color and an empty layer on top. The document is 4886x3264px. If I use a that brush as large mixer brush zoomed out so I'm working on all the image pixels. The lag is painfully slow. If Photoshop Performance setting are set to 4 cache levels and a tile size of 128k or 1028k. If I zoom in to Actual pixels so I'm only working on a screen size number of pixels the lag is still bad if I use a large tip size like 50 to 60px. If I use a small tip like 10px there is some lag but not painfully slow. Lag is bad when working on a large number of pixels and become painfully slow as brush size increases. On my windows workstation...
I think think the only way Photoshop performance could be improved would be to work on the small image being displayed and processing the image actual pixels in the background. Then syncing the the displayed image with the actual image when the background process become idle. Photoshop was not designed to be a Paint program. If your a painter an artiest I would think there are better paint programs in the market place then Photoshop.

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First, I have to clarify this is just my solution for the problem I encoutered. It may not work for you, but I think it's nice to post here for whoever needs it some day.
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First, I have to clarify this is just my solution for the problem I encoutered. It may not work for you, but I think it's nice to post here for whoever needs it some day.
I live in Sydney, using TPG as my home network provider. In order to use iMessage on my iPad, I followed the solution on this community to change to DNS to 8.8.8.8. And it works, which I thinks it's really odd and Apple never gives any explaination.
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