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Article #731Re: Rosetta Performance
From: Periodic Acid
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 14:14
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 14:14
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Alan flushed and announced: >I have one of the new Intel-based iMacs - the 20" model with the 2GHz >dual core processor & 512Mb Ram + all the latest system software >installed. > >When running universal applications it works very nicely. However, >older PowerPC applications run - using Rosetta - quite slowly. This is >an issue for me - I use bittorrent (the original client), MSN >messenger, MS Office, Limewire, Google Earth, etc. Once I have a >couple of these running, the computer tends to grind to a halt. >Nothing crashes, but the machine slows down to a crawl and becomes >virtually unusable. > >Is there anything I can do about this? Typical mac. Use it as a door stop. > Or do I just need to wait until >universal binaries become available for all of these applications? >Would buying more memory help? Sueyside is the correct answer in your case.
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