How can people say macbooks are screaming when they clearly arent?

[farqueue]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...=cat01170&type=product&tab=1&id=1134699426321

Can someone please get me 1 x 1gb of this ram?
I am from new zealand and i can buy it from best buy

 

[scott523]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...=cat01170&type=product&tab=1&id=1134699426321

Can someone please get me 1 x 1gb of this ram?
I am from new zealand and i can buy it from best buy

Lol another thread referred to this site and I hope this offer stays on until I get a MacBook. Those Corsairs contain Samsung chips (enlarged photo) and Samsung is one of Apple's favorite suppliers.

 

[rtdgoldfish]

Lol another thread referred to this site and I hope this offer stays on until I get a MacBook. Those Corsairs contain Samsung chips (enlarged photo) and Samsung is one of Apple's favorite suppliers.

I'm thinking this sale ends on 9/24. Best Buy usually runs sale prices from Sunday to Saturday, they might not have updated their site yet.

 

[netdog]

Gee that's too bad.

Mine is very fast.

 

[MACDRIVE]

I think it's your modem that is slowing you down and not the RAM. With my measly 512MB, Safari launches as fast as I can click on the icon with only 1 bounce.

 

[farqueue]

I think it's your modem that is slowing you down and not the RAM. With my measly 512MB, Safari launches as fast as I can click on the Icon with only 1 bounce.

Is that initial launch? or subsequent launches ure talkimg about brother?

 

[MACDRIVE]

Initial launch on an old PowerBook.

 

[ThinkingMac]

speed boost

Download Onxy and run it with everything checked. I did this to my friends MacBook Pro and he could not believe the speed increase. Don’t ask me why this worked as I have no idea. But the difference was amazing.

 

[FleurDuMal]

Apart from the odd PPC app, none of my apps take more than a bounce to load . This is all on a 2.0 2GB Macbook which always chronically underperforms on benchmarking apps such as Xbench...

Edit: I pretty much always sleep my machine, so that might have something to do with it (OSX only runs maintanence processes when you sleep the machine...I think)

 

[Shadow]

Did you get the 7200rpm hard drive? Boot time is dependent on hard drive speed, and in this day and age NOT on processor. What ram will do to help is to cache disk sectors in memory so your subsequent launches of the same program would be faster.

ie: start firefox, close firefox, reopen firefox.

Extra ram would help firefox startup quicker on the 2nd time.

I dissagree. My MacBook boots waaaaay faster than SBT's Mac Mini (we ran the test side by side), yet they have the same RPM HD.

 

[Abstract]

Wow r u sure you had 3 bounces for MS word?
When i had 2gb of ram, it must have taken at LEAST 15 seconds for it to load.

So i guess the question lies within what kind of ram do you use?
I used a 2gb generic one from powerline memory.

Me, like some other people, made an edit to MS Word so that it doesn't verify and check every single font in your system before it starts up. It just starts up without checking. MS Word starts on 3.5 bounces (2 seconds, maybe 2.5 seconds) for me.

MacBook 1.83GHz with 1.5GB of RAM and 5400 rpm HDD.


EDIT: I fully QUIT Microsoft Word, then reopened the app. One bounce before it started. That's less than one second.

 

[Bunsen Burner]

I'm glad someone posted this. My BlackBook has 2gb and it definately doesn't scream. Firefox, iTunes, iPhoto bounce at least 6 times before opening. And the pinwheel spins quite often. Whereas, my iMac G5 NEVER sees the pinwheel.

Also, the apps don't bounce as many times after they are opened at least once. It seems they only lag on the first launch. Anyway, I enjoy my MacBook, but it doesn't launch apps as quickly as my iMac with 1.5gb.

Golley gee willikers, ripfrankwhite, perhaps it has to do with the fact that an iMac has a desktop hard drive and the Macbook has a ...

I think you can figure it out.

BB

 

[QuarterSwede]

Apart from the odd PPC app, none of my apps take more than a bounce to load . This is all on a 2.0 2GB Macbook which always chronically underperforms on benchmarking apps such as Xbench...

Edit: I pretty much always sleep my machine, so that might have something to do with it (OSX only runs maintanence processes when you sleep the machine...I think)

OT: OS X only runs maintenance processes at ~3 AM when your computer is NOT asleep. If its in sleep mode its only providing power to the RAM.

 

[gloss]

My MacBook does take longer than I'd like to open some proggies initally (Opera, I'm looking at you), but is brings them up nearly instantaneously once they've loaded the first time, even if I have since closed them out.

And also - try doing video compression (Handbrake is a good app). You will then understand that your Macbook is indeed screaming.

 

[Dale_Nx26]

I agree, somewhat. Compare to my Mac mini, the MB is about the same. Though, Apps do take slightly faster to open. The login time is much improved. Otherwise, everyting is just the same. It's not like going from 777 MHz to 2 GHz, nor is it a mac mini to a powermac (never experienced this so I'm just guessing). The MB for me is a moderately improvement (with hardware issues! ).

 

[chasingapple]

Same test on an iMac G4 1.25Ghz with 768MB memory.

iChat: 2
Safari: 1
iPhoto: 2
iTunes: 2
Mail: 1
Photoshop CS2: Don't have it.
Microsoft Word: 2

No problems here. Then again i'm not using any kind of rosetta to run any of these, all PPC native.

 

[Clydefrog]

I did the same thing and here are my results of the first and second launch:

iChat 4, 2
Safari 2, 1
iPhoto 3, 1
Microsoft Word 16, crash
iTunes 2, 1
Mail 3, 1
PhotoshopCS 9, crash

I tried to reopen Word, and PS CS and they crashes everytime.

maybe you just have bad ram

 

[Mackilroy]

I only have 512 Mb of RAM, and I usually get 1-2 bounces on everything - plus I run seven programs (Xchat, Safari, iTunes, Adium, Quicktime, Neo Office, and then one random other, as it varies) and they all run smoothly and very quickly.

Your results are quite strange.

 

[QCassidy352]

I'm glad someone posted this. My BlackBook has 2gb and it definately doesn't scream. Firefox, iTunes, iPhoto bounce at least 6 times before opening. And the pinwheel spins quite often. Whereas, my iMac G5 NEVER sees the pinwheel.

there's something wrong with your MB. Those apps open in 2 or 3 bounces, even on first launch, for me. 1 or 2 on subsequent launches.

 

[wwooden]

Do you keep your computer on all the time, never restarting? I know that OS X is good about cleaning junk out but sometimes a good restart every couple of days will keep the system running smooth and peppy. I know that when I leave my computer for days, it does get a bit slow. I just restart and then it is fine again.

 

[Superdrive]

Do you keep your computer on all the time, never restarting? I know that OS X is good about cleaning junk out but sometimes a good restart every couple of days will keep the system running smooth and peppy. I know that when I leave my computer for days, it does get a bit slow. I just restart and then it is fine again.

That could just be folklore that restarts clear out the junk. I've run my PowerBook and iMac for hundreds of days without restarts and there is never any loss in performance.

 

[66217]

Me, like some other people, made an edit to MS Word so that it doesn't verify and check every single font in your system before it starts up. It just starts up without checking. MS Word starts on 3.5 bounces (2 seconds, maybe 2.5 seconds) for me.

MacBook 1.83GHz with 1.5GB of RAM and 5400 rpm HDD.


EDIT: I fully QUIT Microsoft Word, then reopened the app. One bounce before it started. That's less than one second.

How can I make this? Can I encounter any problems if I do this?

 

[drake]

My Intel 3.2 P4 is way faster than my 1.8 Macbook.

 

[thugpoet22]

its funny how far we have come and to wait a few extra seconds for a app to jump onto the screen we make a big fuss. The only app that tends to take a while to load up is ms office, and i know its not in universial code, i know its going to pop up i just have to wait a few seconds. And for the apps that you launch often im sure something is built into the OS cashe some of the apps instructions so that it launches faster next time. Mine seems to act like that. Like if you launch a app like Camino (which is my browser) the first time it might jump 2 or 3 times, but if i quit the app and then quickly reload it, it jumps up right away. But in all its the ram thats really going to make it scream. Cant wait until i can afford 2 gigs of ram.

 

[ripfrankwhite]

Ok, I finally got everything working correctly. It was a big hassle, but it worked. And to the wiseguy Bunsen Burner, who posted the smarta$$ comment, the issue was totally unrelated to hard drive speed. Some people just chime in with condescending comments without reading the posts. Foolish.

Thanks a lot dreamsINdigital, for recommending that I remove Shapeshifter, it helped a lot. That was the first step. But Office was giving me some serious issues. All the apps now launch quite quickly, so I can say that it now "screams". Thanks.