Why is my MBP faster than my new imac?

[Nautilus007]

flash

yeah but flash shouldn't be affecting the comp when you are doing daily tasks regardless of how long its been on this is a widespread hardware or software issue

i was reading the world of warcraft forums on battle.net yesterday theres a lot of people experiencing choppiness and general lockups with the new imacs.

 

[ViViDboarder]

Apple has regularly had problems with flash. See if it happens if you browse using Firefox. Back when I got my MBP (1st gen) it was really bad with flash in Safari.

All that being said... Mine works great.
I bought the 21.5" with the ATI card. Haven't had an issue yet. I use Safari also. I haven't tested it with flash heavy video as I don't often watch things on Hulu or the like.

 

[Nautilus007]

chop

Apple has regularly had problems with flash. See if it happens if you browse using Firefox. Back when I got my MBP (1st gen) it was really bad with flash in Safari.

All that being said... Mine works great.
I bought the 21.5" with the ATI card. Haven't had an issue yet. I use Safari also. I haven't tested it with flash heavy video as I don't often watch things on Hulu or the like.

yeah but its not just flash anymore the whole computer becomes "laggy and choppy"

 

[ViViDboarder]

yeah but its not just flash anymore the whole computer becomes "laggy and choppy"

Damn... Well hopefully they get that fixed. Seems like it's a software issue according to various reports so you're probably in luck. I'd expect an update soon. (Once/if Apple admits there was an issue)

Also, you don't have to put a title on all your posts. It's optional except for when you start a thread.

 

[DrNelly]

This problem also appears when playing a 720p or 1080p video. Video is choppy and I can't even imagine how many frames per second are dropped. Also when I open Dreamweaver or Adobe Bridge the main windows are sluggish and they take forever to respond.

Maybe all this is just Adobe conspiring against Apple

Does anyone have problems with airport not connecting automatically to default network after the computer wakes up from sleep?? This has been happening every time with the iMac, and I have to disable Airport and connect again... My MBP connects in a split second after waking up.

So far, my MBP (Early 08) outperforms the base iMac 27 in almost every way. Maybe drivers are not mature enough yet...

 

[donster28]

Funny, I was just at an Apple Store a few days back and checked out the new 27" iMacs (not the quads obviously) and when I try iMovie on it, it lags like heck. I thought it was isolated to the unit I'm using, but upon trying the others on display, the problem's the same.

Good thing I'm waiting 'till December to get my Quad i7.

 

[stencilnyc]

You guys are funny. Mine's still fine.

15:51 up 1 day, 20:59, 2 users, load averages: 0.53 0.28 0.18

While I am sure some people are having problem, the panic and chaos here is largely unnecessary. Sucks that you're having problems, but at this point the majority of responses are people who don't have iMacs to begin with.

 

[DrNelly]

I'm not sure load averages is a significant indicator in this case.

The problem relates when specific processes suddenly need all processing power available when I'm positive they could do with 5% of it at most, I'm talking about simple textEdit, preview a picture or scroll in safari...

Background processes are pretty frugal on my iMac so that's not the problem, the causes for this are very random and that's what worries me...

It is not only flash on safari, firefox or even only browser related, it is a system wide problem...

Anyone else having to reconnect to wifi network (as in turn off airport and turn on again) every time the computer wakes up?

 

[iMac20inch5003]

Your iMac

Well i have a 20" inch iMac that i bought at the apple store on clearance for $899 2 days ago and mine sometimes gets slow and choppy, but not too bad. Also if i might point out it's important that you go to the Genius Bar and let them take a look at it. *Although at the Apple Store i saw someone that just came in with his imac 24" inch and told one of the employees that he wanted it exchanged for the new 27" inch iMac and it was no questions asked, the employee toke the iMac and swapped it out for him. So you might want to try doing that, possibly exchange it for a faster one or slower one if possible to try to fix your issue. Hope this helps!
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[ftwizard]

This is an Airport related problem. Try clicking on the Airport icon in the toolbar, this should clear the problem for a little while.
If you can hard wire to the modem, then you should have no problem at all.
It is not Flash related, that is just a red herring, it will happen even without any browser being opened. Open your activity monitor and watch the CPU monitors, when they show an increase in system activity, the computer will become sluggish and jumpy, click on the Airport icon, and watch the red bars disappear.

 

[MacDSmith2]

Airport Poll

OK, lets put this issue to the test: How many of you reporting iMac slow and sluggish behavior are running through an Airport Extreme Router versus others who are using a LinkSys Router? Maybe we can determine if it is Flash or if it is Airport. There seems to be two sides of the coin on this.

 

[Goldie009]

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.

I had the same problem with syncservises process. Try deleting the preferences folder for mail and re-start the program. Mail will make itself a new set of .plist files from scratch and it should hopefully solve the problem for you. Re-Installing OSX doesnt sort this problem, you need to delete the corresponding preferences folders / files and restart the program.

Let me know if that works! Hope it does