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Hello fellow members.
About 2 months ago I bought the new Intel Imac 17 inch. I paid about $1800 cdn for the machine including taxes and student discount. I expected this machine to run extremely fast as I was upgrading from a P4 1.8 715 ddr ram.
Shortly with in one week's time I did comparitive run with my little brother's mac mini and my Imac. The mac mini outperformed my Imac in the area of gaming (Intel Imac come with ATI 128 ram and the mac mini has 32 mb built in) We tested the same games, first halo then battlefield 1942. His mac mini destroyed my Imac. Then I ran software test such as loading up adobe cs 2 and dreamweaver. To my surprise the mac mini was only a bit behind not alot. I expected the Imac to beat the mac mini by atleast 500 miles but to my dissapointment it didnt.
So I returned it assuming my IMAC surely cannot be worse than the mac mini as I paid one thousand dollars more. I got a brand new Imac. To my surprise the same thing happened.!!!!
I came to the point I was soo frustrated I nearly smashed my imac open. The software that I was running consecutively was adobe cs2 for web graphics and dreamweaver to build and program. The amount of lag it was having between each program was ridiculous.
So now after all of this ordeal I have installed boot and now have windows xp on my system. Let me tell you one thing, it is the smartest thing I have ever done. Now my Imac is performing atleast 100 times better than before and there seems to be no sign of any lag.
I have been reading for a while and it has been said that rosetta might be the cause of the lag, but I am going to call apple and go to the apple store and give them an ear full.
But for anyone who is in my situation, who likes to run alot of programs and is utiliing them all, get boot camp and install windows xp pro SP2. You wont regret it.
I would like to ask if anyone else has have the same experience.
About 2 months ago I bought the new Intel Imac 17 inch. I paid about $1800 cdn for the machine including taxes and student discount. I expected this machine to run extremely fast as I was upgrading from a P4 1.8 715 ddr ram.
Shortly with in one week's time I did comparitive run with my little brother's mac mini and my Imac. The mac mini outperformed my Imac in the area of gaming (Intel Imac come with ATI 128 ram and the mac mini has 32 mb built in) We tested the same games, first halo then battlefield 1942. His mac mini destroyed my Imac. Then I ran software test such as loading up adobe cs 2 and dreamweaver. To my surprise the mac mini was only a bit behind not alot. I expected the Imac to beat the mac mini by atleast 500 miles but to my dissapointment it didnt.
So I returned it assuming my IMAC surely cannot be worse than the mac mini as I paid one thousand dollars more. I got a brand new Imac. To my surprise the same thing happened.!!!!
I came to the point I was soo frustrated I nearly smashed my imac open. The software that I was running consecutively was adobe cs2 for web graphics and dreamweaver to build and program. The amount of lag it was having between each program was ridiculous.
So now after all of this ordeal I have installed boot and now have windows xp on my system. Let me tell you one thing, it is the smartest thing I have ever done. Now my Imac is performing atleast 100 times better than before and there seems to be no sign of any lag.
I have been reading for a while and it has been said that rosetta might be the cause of the lag, but I am going to call apple and go to the apple store and give them an ear full.
But for anyone who is in my situation, who likes to run alot of programs and is utiliing them all, get boot camp and install windows xp pro SP2. You wont regret it.
I would like to ask if anyone else has have the same experience.