[HyperX]

I bought a new Mac Pro about 2 months ago now. 11 Gigs of Ram, with 2 terrabytes of hard drive space. Running ATI1900 vid card.

Some of my issues with the Mac (and I am new to the mac world, I basically switched from Windows)

1. Network browsing on a MAC is slow. I have a NAS server with 10,000 files in a single folder. I have parallels running Windows XP. With a stop watch, when I open this NAS folder in windows, it opens in 4 seconds. In native OSX, it takes 45 seconds to open this folder. I already tried everything, including calling the manufacturer of the NAS, and it is a lot faster (was about 2 minutes before). Why does the native OSX take so much longer browsing the files? (BTW running Linux (ubuntu, its also slow. So I am sure this has to do with the way linux/unix handles file browsing -- oh and the NAS is running linux as underlying OS)

2. Firefox 2.0 take about 12 seconds to open in native OSX. In Windows XP in parallels takes about 5 seconds to open. (under bootcamp those times are the same, I took into account that in parallels the VM file could be pre-loaded, etc). Most of the other apps load fairly slower than in windows as well. These are not apps that are windows pre-loaded. They actually load faster when the mac is running windows (under bootcamp).

I guess I expected the MAC to be a lot faster, but yet the OS itself is fairly slow. I am sticking to the mac, I still like how consistent it is, no registry, etc, and the reliability is amazing. I am just wondering if others don't notice these slow downs?

[mduell]

These are both well known and widely reported issues. The answer seems to be that OSX just isn't as "snappy" as Windows. It has nothing to do with the hardware.

[iMacfan]

Working with both systems, I do notice these problems, but as you've said, it is consistent and reliable. Also, remember that XP is a very old operating system now, and so I'd hope that it was pretty snappy on new hardware, because if it wasn't it would be even worse in comparison with the current version of OSX. I'd give it a few weeks, and you'll get used to how long it takes to do various tasks, and when a couple of seconds waiting is expected, it'll be far less irritating. It isn't like the system is freezing for 30 seconds or anything.

David

[mac128k-1984]

Originally Posted by HyperX 

I bought a new Mac Pro about 2 months ago now. 11 Gigs of Ram, with 2 terrabytes of hard drive space. Running ATI1900 vid card.

2. Firefox 2.0 take about 12 seconds to open in native OSX. In Windows XP in parallels takes about 5 seconds to open.

Holy cow you have a tricked out mac - 11 Gigs of Ram, 2 terrabytes of hard drive space.

I cannot answer #1 since I don't have a NAS setup but its been reported that firefox is slower then its windows counterpart. Nothing to do with the mac but the software. For the record I don't recall waiting excessivly for firefox. It seems to cmoe up within 5 to 10 seconds but to be honest I've never timed it. I use safari the majority of the time.

I can only off some basic advice. Run the Apple Hadware Test (found on your install disc) also see if there's any errors/permission problems with your hard drives. For the heck of it run some benchmarks and compare your results with others. If your results are dramatically slower others then maybe something else is going on.

[bleee]

Does your NAS support AFP? might want to turn that on if it does it might. Firefox might not be a universal binary which means it requires rosetta which runs apps compiled for PPC on Intel machines.