Hi Rod,
any old app will need to use Rosetta to emulate the old processor.
This will cause a significant slow down in speed.
I have been using Pages 3.0 as my word processor of choice and am
quite pleased with its performance until I used Pages 2 on a G4 iBook
and realised how quick my MacBook Pro actually was.
In using Word and Excel it appears about as fast as my old 1 GHz PB.
Using iMovie and iDVD the MB Pro is about the same when it comes to
normal tasks but much faster with rendering.
I haven't experienced printing delays but we have just installed a
new HP 8150 which is so fast the paper flies out the tray before you
hit the print button!
The thing that really convinced me as to the speed was when I was
converting a movie to run on an iPod. On the PB is took 3 hours on
the MB Pro it was 1/2 an hour using a native app.
Start by going to version tracker which has a huge list of shareware,
freeware and commercial SW that has already been converted to run
native and download some of your favourites, you should see an
immediate difference in speed.
Regards,
Eugene
On 21/06/2006, at 10:04 AM, Rob Phillips wrote:
Now that I have had my 15" intel-based MacBook Pro for a month or
so, I can comment on its speed relative to the old 17" G4 Powerbook
1.25 Ghz I had. Both machines had/have 2Gb RAM.
Overall, I find the new machine to be slower. My usual apps are
Eudora, Word and Excel, and I often work with large documents with
tables and large spreadsheets. The new machine is much slower in
handling these. I often get a delay of a second when I try to
scroll through a doc. The machine seems to work fine for minutes
and then I get a rotating globe for a couple of seconds.
Printing is really bad. Sometimes I wait 5 secs waiting for the
Print Dialog to load.
Do other people have similar experiences? Is this because Word and
Excel aren't intel native? Or is it because they're M$ products?
Cheers
Rob
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