Are you both checking the same accounts? I find that some of my e-mail accounts take longer to check than others. My EarthLink account can be checked in less than two seconds (including downloading a couple of messages) while my .Mac account takes more than four seconds (without downloading any). And other accounts I have can range from less than one second to more than seven seconds.
As far as search performance goes, Entourage 2004 is faster than X, but, in general, yes, OS X is slower than OS 9. I don't think we'll know if Tiger's speed improvements (I think it's safe to assume there will be some, especially for those using G5s) assist Entourage until it comes out next year. Eddie Hargreaves On 10/31/04 3:17 AM, Scott Haneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pure curiosity here, not a poke at E-rage, I really love E-rage, using 2004 > here. > > Been at a friends a lot lately, he used Outlook, we both check email on > about 6 pop accounts. While I can blow him away feature wise and ease of > use wise, performance, well, he smokes me. > > I have a dual 2.0 G5, he has a single CPU 1.8 Intel running Win 2k. My > connection is comcast at 3.0Mbit and his is DSL at 768, as you can see, I > outpace him in hardware and connectivity. > > His time to check email is so fast I thought it was fake, and just showing > that it checked and then in the background it finished up the connection. > Not the case, since I have access to my email server, I can see that he is > able to check his 6 email accounts in 1 second, or at least, my email server > only has 1 second precision. So he is able to make 6 connections and > release them in under 1 second. > > Me on the other hand, I can not even draw the Progress connection bar in > under a second, for 5 pop accounts, I am connected to the server for 4 > seconds. One less account no less. > > Not only is this a burden on the email server, but it is just not fair :-) > > Why is it that connections are slower? This is under the hood stuff, I > don't get it. > > Then there is the searching and the window resizing, simply amazing how much > better this performs. Opening up 100 emails in his Outlook to 100 emails in > my Entourage, probably a full 10 times faster than me. (did not time that > one, did not want to look bad :-)) > > Is all this more a fault of the OS and its in general sluggishness of stuff? > What I am getting at here is, in 10.4, if the OS is faster (snappier) can I > expect Entourage to follow suit? > > I still jump on a 233 imac in OS 9 sometimes, I still think it is a shame > the finder in OS 9 on a 233Mhz, is well, significantly snappier. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
