Compatible ram for Mac Pro 2010

[ITguy2016]

I totally agree that a newer system can be significantly faster on browsing the web. Even just a different browser can make 100% speed improvement. However, what I want to point out was the significant browsing speed increment should not be coming from the RAM running at high clock speed.

Yes, I understood that. My comment was off topic for this particular discussion.

TBH, I also quite surprise that the software company keep comparing their browser's performance. For me, the internet content should be very "light weight" for modern computer. So, hardly can be a benchmark, but it seems I am totally wrong. At least some internet content like Flash can be very heavy weight.

Modern web browsing requires a lot of CPU power. Much more than it used to. Not only does Flash require higher resources but things such as Java Script do as well.

I am no where near any expert in this area. I doubt if a G5 really cannot browse the web with proper speed (in terms of hardware). However, due to lack of software update, the old browser (software) actually cause more problem than the hardware. Because the old browser may not able to decode the new stuff correctly and effectively (even though hardware resource is not an issue).

I've been using the Internet for over 20 years. I can recall using systems with a 25MHz clock rate on the web with dial up modems. Surprisingly the browsing experience of today, with broadband Internet connectivity, processor speed measured in gigahertz, memory in the gigabytes, disk space in the terabytes, doesn't feel that much faster. All too often I find myself waiting for pages to load. Of course the content is much richer than the early days.

I'm surprised a 1.8GHz system can struggle to browse a modern web page. I am using a current browser. If you're unfamiliar with Ten Four Fox I recommend you look into it. I have no trouble viewing modern web pages. It's the performance, or lack of, that is a result of all the active content on a typical website these days. Disabling Java Script greatly improves performance but at a cost of compatibility. It's just sad that such a system can struggle on a modern web page when it was blazing fast for its day.

And it's new to me that Intel actually put something in the CPU to improve internet experience. Thanks for teach me something today. Do you have any idea what's that? A hardware decoder?

Nothing special was added. I think it was just their marketing trying to show how fast their processor is for the web. I think this was around the Pentium III days so I can't be for certain.

 

[orph]

there's a video hardware decoder on modern intel cpu's that helps a lot when browsing the web.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
i pulled out my G5 this year and the web is not fun flash has not been updated for PPC for a long time there are a few ways to force h264 video but it's just been left behind code wise i think.
java is a problem to and lots of things are broken due to lack of updates.
(flash & java has always been slow on macs)

but some geeks keep kicking with PPC http://powerpcaccess.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/youtube-options-for-powerpc-macs.html
:^^ and there are lots of apps that do run fine on G5's like FC7 adobe CS3 etc..
(adobe cs2 is free now that works)
text edit works fine too

got to say tho happy my G5 tower is a dual cpu :/ id hate to have a single cpu G5 thats got to be hard..

(my old laptop with only 4GB of ram slows down a lot when i have a bunch of tabs open, 4GB is to small now for light use.)

 

[h9826790]

there's a video hardware decoder on modern intel cpu's that helps a lot when browsing the web.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
i pulled out my G5 this year and the web is not fun flash has not been updated for PPC for a long time there are a few ways to force h264 video but it's just been left behind code wise i think.
java is a problem to and lots of things are broken due to lack of updates.
(flash & java has always been slow on macs)

but some geeks keep kicking with PPC http://powerpcaccess.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/youtube-options-for-powerpc-macs.html
:^^ and there are lots of apps that do run fine on G5's like FC7 adobe CS3 etc..
(adobe cs2 is free now that works)
text edit works fine too

got to say tho happy my G5 tower is a dual cpu :/ id hate to have a single cpu G5 thats got to be hard..

(my old laptop with only 4GB of ram slows down a lot when i have a bunch of tabs open, 4GB is to small now for light use.)

If this is why Intel claim their CPU can accelerate browsing, then that's pretty useless for any system that has a decent GPU.

P.S. Just in case my poor English lead to some confusion. I am saying that Intel CPU hasn't doing much to accelerate web browsing, but not your info / comment / sharing is useless.

 

[orph]

my bad re read the comments and noticed the web thing was about the internet during the 90's or something :/ so i was relay of topic.