@Don: I think your eMac might just be too old. Here's why I think this is the case:
I too use an eMac as my daily machine. It's the 1.25Ghz G4, has 2GB of RAM. Everything else is standard (40GB disk, Radeon 9200 32MB). If I want to play YouTube films on this machine, I need to select 360p or 240p. In case of 360p I need to let it load the entire film before playing, if I am to get a smooth framerate. However, since YouTube is full of ads, I somtimes get an unacceptable framerate because of one of the ads being an animated ad. To fix it, I installed an ad-block extension to Safari to give some CPU time back to the films instead of the ads. Even though I get smooth playback, the machine is still loaded heavily. Even starting Mail of TextEdit hurts framerates big time. I'm not sure how the 1.42GHz eMac would handle this, but IIRC it also has the 9200 onboard, with 32MB of RAM I believe. The 9200 (although it supports CoreImage) is just not fast enough to handle YouTube properly. Greetings, Eelco. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
