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Article #752Re: [Rosetta Performance]
From: Titanic Chloride
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 15:48
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 15:48
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Alan Holmes flushed and announced:
>
>"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.
>
Killfiles are for those with no self control.
oo
Continue fetching for me....
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