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Why does Windows on my MB eclipse OSX?
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In terms of speed. I never use OSX any more because everything is slow. If I have for instance to quicktime vids open, several hundred mb each, my comp stutters severly. If I'm on the web in a forum with say, 100 pics in one post. OMG, I might as well shut the thing down, can't scroll seamlessly through all 100 pics.
Opening up word, anything related to ms office, takes forever. Everything.
I'm just frustrated and pissed because everything mentioned above on the windows side is a breeze, blazing fast, ON MY MB! Why?
This is not a praise windows thread. I actually cant stand windows, so why the hell is osx moving like a freaking turtle for me for anything?
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well, office will be really slow because its being emulated. if you don't have a lot of ram on the machine then, office will use it all up and get super slow.
and my experience with windows is that it's blazing fast until i need to reinstall it, and then all that "speed" is spent reinstalling everything.
but yeah, comparing office or photoshop between intel OSX and windows isn't fair. windows will destroy them.
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There has to be something else going on if your MB is really that slow. Maybe you have it set to startup allot of programs when you startup OSX. Maybe your ram is partially malfunctioning, example, you have factory 512 or 1 gig, but the stick is damaged in some way and are only truley running 256 or less. A normal MB is not slow with Safari, Firefox or word.
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Office should rock, emulated or not...
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I regularly have several (3-4) HD QuickTime files open and have no problems what so ever. This is on a 2.0 MHz MacBook.
And OSX flies. Something is going on with your 'Book.
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It's all about the RAM. OSX has to emulate office in Rosetta. When I had the factory-installed 512MB, office was horrible. Since I upgraded to 2GB, it runs beautifully, and I can multitask again.
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you need 1G-2G RAM, RAM is good for Mac & PC
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yeah, I echo the others that you should not see a noticeable difference in basic apps. you may want to reinstall and/or take this in to be looked at.
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I agree that Windows runs marginally faster on things like what the original poster mentioned but by no means is it THAT much faster. Opening videos and web browsing is plenty fast on my 2.0 with 1 gb of ram.
I agree, try getting more ram or checking what all is running.
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You think Windows runs fast...DOS screams!!
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I see only a tiny amount of difference in speed between Office 2004 on my MBP ("emulated" is not the right word; it's TRANSLATED) and Office XP on my PC with a similar CPU clock speed. If anything is not running "just about" as fast through Rosetta (with some exceptions-there are some really processor intensive apps that WILL be slow as molasses under Rosetts) then there's something wrong.
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Originally Posted by nickw311
I agree that Windows runs marginally faster on things like what the original poster mentioned but by no means is it THAT much faster. Opening videos and web browsing is plenty fast on my 2.0 with 1 gb of ram.
I agree, try getting more ram or checking what all is running.
"Marginally faster" and "really slow" in this case are both subjective. What you find to be "marginally" different might be unbearably different for another person. There was always the risk that making Apple computers Windows compatible would eliminate the question of hardware differences from the benchmark between Windows and MacOs.
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I work side by side with my PC and macbook I really don't notice any difference in speed. I have an Athlon 64 3200 running XP and a MacBook 2.0 Core 2 Duo on OS X. I think I may even prefer my MacBook to the PC.
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