On Jun 15, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Stephen Weber wrote: > I have a G3 600mhz iMac and runs bad on yourtube too. You need a > computer with a processor better than a G3 or a early G4. It's > because flash is a CPU hog.
I've had some Pentium III PC laptops that were equivalent MHz to G3 and early G4 Apples. It always bothered me immensely that a 700MHz PIII could play almost all video completely smoothly with an 8MB Radeon video card; and a G4 PowerBook with 8MB Radeon, or G3 700-900MHz iBook with 16MB Radeon both completely choke on even simple video, and coaxing any smooth video playback is a real chore. I used such a 700MHz PIII to watch the Beijing Olympics online via MS Silverlight (which has no PPC Mac port), and it displayed fine on my 40" Samsung LCD TV. Conversely, my G4 Mini with 32MB Radeon seems to stutter from time-to-time on lots of different video formats, and it's running at 1.58GHz, over twice as fast as the PIII. The bus width should double that speed again, so on the face I'd think the Mini was minimally 4x faster CPU/Bus, with 4x the VRAM, and 2x the RAM (1GB vs 512MB), and yet for video playback the PIII won hands down? What's the deal? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
