Kris Tilford wrote: > 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? > > Kris your case is sad, really sad. And I wish someone out there could explain....what's the deal? I would think, being completely drunk, that a 1.58 ghz machine would beat a P3 machine. I do have a P3 laptop of similar specs like yours and never noticed this kinds of issues. And when I moved to the G4 from my Pismo----though not completely yet---I thought all this kinds of problems history. I guess not. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
