Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Why is my MBP faster than my new imac?

slow

yeah after reading these,.


My macbook pro had snow leopard and i have completely uninstalled many programs it seems to happen less frequently but it still seems too laggy for the kind of hardware this machine packs hopefully its fixed. Spotlight indexing has been finished for a long time youtube and any kind of flash really slows them down i thought getting the upgraded GFX card would prevent this.
 
xtend said:
At least its a common problem.. which is GOOD:

the more common it is, the faster it will be fixed by apple in a software update.
Click to expand...

dont ya think thats kind of ridiculous for a product of this price to be released faulty by design?

who else would get away with it?
 
archipellago said:
dont ya think thats kind of ridiculous for a product of this price to be released faulty by design?

who else would get away with it?
Click to expand...

Microsoft? Vista had driver issues.

Problem could be that Apple will not acknowledge the issue but secretly fixes it without telling anybody, which is why this thread must stay alive till the release of 10.6.2 to establish whether or not that update fixes the problem.
 
uuaschbaer said:
Microsoft? Vista had driver issues.

Problem could be that Apple will not acknowledge the issue but secretly fixes it without telling anybody, which is why this thread must stay alive till the release of 10.6.2 to establish whether or not that update fixes the problem.
Click to expand...

which Microsoft PC had hardware issues..??:confused:
 
Seems like software issues, not hardware.

Funny that I ran into this post... I have a core duo macbook pro (Leopard 10.5.8) and it has the same issue. Trying to find a fix... there is a possibility the hard drive is going bad.... would a bad hard drive cause flash issues?

My other iMacs are working perfectly (Leopard 10.5.8)

Have you guys tried installing the latest flash updates? It seemed to help me, but then went bad again. Could it be that the flash plugin is not operating correctly?
 
You should get that computer replaced if it's behaving like that for you. When the genius sees it you have the right to demand (nicely of course) a replacement if you don't feel like waiting for them to figure out the problem. This is what I did when I bought my MBA and it wasn't treating me well. They unboxed a brand new one and gave it to me with no questions asked (you may need to ask for a manager).
 
Just curious, are you running Firefox or Safari?

I don't have an iMac, but a 2.4ghz Black Macbook w/ 4gigs of RAM. On a restart of Firefox, everything is nice and zippy; however, after about a day of having Firefox windows open:
  • scrolling lags
  • youtube videos lag
  • the whole application is just slow in general

I've looked at Activity Monitor while this is happening, and right when Firefox freezes, CPU activity jumps from 1-30% to over 90-100+%.

Doing some tests now, it looks like FF uses:
  • about 1-5% CPU when I type in this box
  • ~50% when I watch a youtube video in standard def, no lagging
  • 100-120% when I watched the same youtube video in HD, very slight lag
  • 10-15% after going back and typing a new post (still staying there)
  • Drops down to 4-8 on occasion, otherwise, stays at 10+%

If people are running Safari, I'll just start a thread elsewhere...
 
On a side note, flash does not use GPU accelerated video decoding, but installing clicktoflash. Allows you to run youtube videos with quicktime instead of flash, taking a huge toll off your processor. As well as making the videos smooth.
 
archipellago said:
which Microsoft PC had hardware issues..??:confused:
Click to expand...

I'm sorry, I was determined in my mind that Snow Leopard was the culprit, so when I read your post about 'products of this price' I thought of operating systems. Microsoft doesn't build PCs of course, although HP, Dell, Sony and the rest do. They are licensed to ship their PCs with versions of Vista and many of them had driver issues like the new iMacs might have.
 
As a lot of you are, i'm very relieved that i'm not the only one with this lagging problem... I too was tempted with the new imacs that i immediately sold my 20" 2.4ghz 3gb ram aluminum imac for $800, which was a good deal imo... I was very impressed with how easy it was to set up my new 27" imac.. one cord, pre installed mouse/keyboard software WITH batteries! It was all gravy until i noticed the system start to lag.. immediately i knew something was wrong because i never had this problem with my machines previous... please keep me updated with what your resolutions are with this problem.. I myself am going to see an :apple: genius tomorrow and ask that it gets replaced or refund my money until the issue is resolved.. i will also have this forum now as a weapon against anything negative they say about the situation.... :cool:
 
yea its definately flash oriented whatever this issue is. I'm having the same issue with my 27 inch.
 
New iMac slowdown

Hi,

I'm completely new to this, but since I am planning on buying the new 27" iMac I was doing a little research on possible issues (and landed up in this thread...). Found this little thing on the Apple user forum:

I called Apple support and now the problem is solved. It had to do with file permissions.

To solve that problem, simply go to Disk Utility, select Macintosh HD and click on Repais Permissions​

And then this one relating to the flash stuff:
Wow, thanks for the tip. I just ran Permission verify then repair on my new 1TB system disk and see a ton of incorrect permissions. In particular Library/Internet Plug-Ins-Flash Player...
​


Again, since I don't have an iMac yet, I have no idea if this helps. Just wanted to provide it in case it really does...

Have a nice day...
 
my mate here in the house has bought a new 27" too and has the same problems , it told him to bring it back to the shop
as my imac g3 ,600mhz plays youtube videos smoother and gets less upset about flash on websites compared with his brandnew imac 27" , 3.06 ghz ,
 
This is not good.

So many reports of 27" iMacs running
slower than older computers.

...and display problems to boot.

I hope Apple is on top of this.
 
firstupro said:
Cheers!
Valikie
Out of the many posts, this one attract my attention. I believe it is possible for anyone to participate.
Excellent ! I like it very much.
Click to expand...


:D This made me smile. Welcome to the fold mate.

OP this is a known issue with many of the new iMacs. The mothersh:apple:p will fix it like they always do, of course in time. If I may suggest to hang on to your current computer if this is the only issue you notice. Exchanging it may just give you the same headaches over the same issue. Until they patch it try and enjoy all of the other amazing aspects of your new beast and ride it like you stole it.
 
Same issues...

New 27" iMac.....slow, slower, then even slower over time. Doubtful a snow leopard issue b/c macbook pro runs well with no lags (scrolling on webpages, noticeable dock jerkiness). VERY big let down....

Same issues as everyone else is getting.
 
Have you updated Flash Player 10? Installed Perian? Installed latest NVidia drivers?
 
Maybe if people stopped installing pirated applications, they wouldn't have ANY ******* issues.

I think most of this is caused by that... Not saying all, but most OS issues, to new computer issues.
 
Thats the problem with buying new releases straight away. They often have issues that take a while for Apple to iron out. So it might be best to sit back for a couple of months and wait for things to smooth out, then buy it, and no fuss =)

I'm going to get SL for my iMac and I'm getting a new MBP on Chrsitmas, but I'm waiting for all the SL issues to be solved before I buy it.
 
Sun Baked said:
Yep, one of the apps you are using has a memory leak.

Can be anything from Norton (which is all the bad options rolled into one), to a torrent app, or an old app.

If it is quick on a restart then gets progressively slower, it is usually one of the apps you are using and leaving on that is causing a problem.
Click to expand...

Any way to solve it other than force quitting the app? Would reinstall the app solve the issue? I've had this problem for over a year with Apple Mail. 5 minutes after clicking "check mail" it would constantly build in the memory it was using until it was using everything my system had and I had to force quit it. I resorted to doing my e-mail in the web browser.
 
Same problem here, this is getting really frustrating. After 20-30 mins of whatever use the computer just goes on lazy sluggishness mode...

Let's bump this up so we make ourselves heard.
 
Without discussing the merits of the slow iMac hardware/software/drivers, the Flash problem can be solved by downloading ClickToFlash. My Mac Pro used to be slow when doing YouTube stuff, but ClickToFlash solved that in a jiffy! This is especially useful for YouTube videos (it loads the H.264 version which is way less taxing on the CPU and may very well be sped up by the nVidia 9400M chip and/or graphics card using OpenCL).
 
not a hardware issue

so i've got the new 27" iMac, and i'm having all the same fun issues everyone else seems to be having with the choppy display.

i was a little freaked out it might be a hardware issue (taking this beast into the nearest apple store wouldn't be a fun trip), so i did some experimentation. i created a secondary user on my system, and once i started having the choppy issues, i logged off and logged into my new account.

i had no issues for the standard 20 minutes or so, at which time youtube and world of warcraft became nearly unusable. without shutting the system down, i bounced back over to my primary account: no problems at all for the first 20 minutes.

i'm certainly not saying this is a viable workaround, but as my system has been running for over 2 days at this time, it really points to a memory leak in the driver or other related software piece, not an overheating problem. while still incredibly irritating, it makes me optimistic that apple will be able to fix this without me having to lug this thing in to have someone poke at it.

can anyone else reasonably confirm it's a software issue as well?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back