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<blockquote data-quote="beemo" data-source="post: 314780" data-attributes="member: 26293"><p>ok forget the article i said</p><p></p><p>how does the speed compare to my current pc?</p><p>it does appear that my pc is faster than the imac 17"??</p><p></p><p>i found reviews for the 17" on circuit city. the first few gave it good but the last two said its slow. they are new dated 2007 and dec 2006</p><p> rating 2.3</p><p> </p><p>intel mac is slow and NOT as fast as people will admit</p><p>Reviewer: netMe from los angels,ca on Fri Jan 12 08:39:55 EST 2007</p><p>2 out of 4 found this review helpful</p><p></p><p>When was the last time apple users have used a newer XP computer??? I am a first time apple buyer and got the 24' with 2gig memory and upgraded video card. My 2 year old amd 1.8 athlon single core was 20% faster in all respects. Maybe it is because theseare newer intel macs and the bugs have not been worked out. If you have photoshop on(even the new cs3) and want to open another program, the spining wheel of death pops up and takes amout 30 seconds to load the new program. Old computer would take about 5to 10 seconds. Loading multiple programs takes forever. For 2k I geta 3 year old cd/dvd burner(24x)?!? . Internet, Flash and other programs have not been written for the new intel mac so they don't work!!!. You can use Roseta, but again why should I havetoput up with running a slow computer.Back to photoshop.Come to find out, most professional use PCs because photoshop is faster with windows. This computer is good, it just runs like a PC 3 or 4 years ago. And yes. it does locks up and crashs about onceevery two weeks.Sure there are fixes and work arounds, but for the money,no more excuses from apple people. Windows PCs have grown up and are just faster and easier to use.a year. Disapointed</p><p></p><p>Was this review helpful to you? yes no</p><p>Features</p><p> rating 3</p><p> </p><p>Performance</p><p> rating 2</p><p> </p><p>Reliability</p><p> rating 3</p><p> </p><p>Cost-Benefit</p><p> rating 2</p><p> </p><p>Overall</p><p> rating 2.5</p><p> </p><p>meh</p><p>Reviewer: grrrr from Bay Area, Ca on Sat Dec 16 01:02:49 EST 2006</p><p>14 out of 31 found this review helpful</p><p></p><p>It's a beautiful computer, and the display is flawless, but i was suprisingly underwhelmed. The first thing I had to do when I plugged it in was to download and wait for a software update that took an hour. I use major graphics programs such as Adobe Photoshop, and so far Photoshop runs very slowly on the computer, slower than on most pc's. Tends to go into an odd standby mode (not a screen saver or darkened screen) and when I try to interact with any program after a 5 minute idle period, it takes about a minute for the Mac to warm back up again. Not for use by people who demand performance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beemo, post: 314780, member: 26293"] ok forget the article i said how does the speed compare to my current pc? it does appear that my pc is faster than the imac 17"?? i found reviews for the 17" on circuit city. the first few gave it good but the last two said its slow. they are new dated 2007 and dec 2006 rating 2.3 intel mac is slow and NOT as fast as people will admit Reviewer: netMe from los angels,ca on Fri Jan 12 08:39:55 EST 2007 2 out of 4 found this review helpful When was the last time apple users have used a newer XP computer??? I am a first time apple buyer and got the 24' with 2gig memory and upgraded video card. My 2 year old amd 1.8 athlon single core was 20% faster in all respects. Maybe it is because theseare newer intel macs and the bugs have not been worked out. If you have photoshop on(even the new cs3) and want to open another program, the spining wheel of death pops up and takes amout 30 seconds to load the new program. Old computer would take about 5to 10 seconds. Loading multiple programs takes forever. For 2k I geta 3 year old cd/dvd burner(24x)?!? . Internet, Flash and other programs have not been written for the new intel mac so they don't work!!!. You can use Roseta, but again why should I havetoput up with running a slow computer.Back to photoshop.Come to find out, most professional use PCs because photoshop is faster with windows. This computer is good, it just runs like a PC 3 or 4 years ago. And yes. it does locks up and crashs about onceevery two weeks.Sure there are fixes and work arounds, but for the money,no more excuses from apple people. Windows PCs have grown up and are just faster and easier to use.a year. Disapointed Was this review helpful to you? yes no Features rating 3 Performance rating 2 Reliability rating 3 Cost-Benefit rating 2 Overall rating 2.5 meh Reviewer: grrrr from Bay Area, Ca on Sat Dec 16 01:02:49 EST 2006 14 out of 31 found this review helpful It's a beautiful computer, and the display is flawless, but i was suprisingly underwhelmed. The first thing I had to do when I plugged it in was to download and wait for a software update that took an hour. I use major graphics programs such as Adobe Photoshop, and so far Photoshop runs very slowly on the computer, slower than on most pc's. Tends to go into an odd standby mode (not a screen saver or darkened screen) and when I try to interact with any program after a 5 minute idle period, it takes about a minute for the Mac to warm back up again. Not for use by people who demand performance. [/QUOTE]
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