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Article #746Re: Rosetta Performance
From: Alan Holmes
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 15:05
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 15:05
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"Periodic Acid" <---@---.---> wrote in message news:97qe52hpt25l6nt494bu8onppph8k6g8g0@zach... > 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. I'm coming to the conclusion that you qualify for the killfile.
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