Re: Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-19 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:47 AM, QuoVadis wrote: 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

Re: Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-18 Thread QuoVadis
@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

Re: Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 18, 2011, at 2:47 AM, QuoVadis wrote: 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. Correct. My 1.42 GHz Mini, which

Re: Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-18 Thread Dan
At 1:11 PM -0500 10/18/2011, Kris Tilford wrote: Windows PCs that are really slow seem to handle YouTube and other streaming video much better than Macs running OS X. Adobe has had hooks into the video cards on PCs for years. That's why Flash always performs better on Windoze. WRT QT h.264

Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-17 Thread Don Wakefield
Sorry if this is a repeat message to some of you, but I never saw it post after I sent it.  I am still in need of suggestions. I am currently running Leopard on my eMac, and I have been told to run hardware checkup from the original startup disk. I have been experiencing a variety of nagging

Re: Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 17, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Don Wakefield wrote: I am currently running Leopard on my eMac, Leopard is about 15-20% slower on PPC Macs than Tiger according to benchmark tests like xBench or GeekBench (you can check either archive of test results to see actual numbers). and I have been

Re: Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-17 Thread Dan
At 8:00 AM -0700 10/17/2011, Don Wakefield wrote: Sorry if this is a repeat message to some of you, but I never saw it post after I sent it. me either. sigh. Leopard on my eMac processor speed, memory? experiencing a variety of nagging irritations with regard to video playback of Youtube

Re: Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-17 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Pesky hardware problem Date:Monday, 17. October 2011 From:Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Leopard is about 15-20% slower on PPC Macs than Tiger according to benchmark tests like xBench or GeekBench