One Sick Puppy
Registered
I'm about 2 months into owning my first iBook (my first Mac, too) and I'm finding Office Mac 2004 and Firefox are both comparitively much slower than on a PC.
The slowness is particularly noticable when scrolling through a document with the scroll bar. If I'm scrolling thru a document in Word or in Firefox, the scrolling is rather sluggish. If I scroll through the document fast (but within reason) the scroll bar will fall behind the mouse. If I do this repeatedly with the Activity Monitor open, I can see the CPU usage skyrocket. I still have ram free.
I've got my performance level set to Automatic, and I'm using wall power. This are no different if I set the energy saver to high performance.
Anyhoo... I don't imagine there is anything wrong with the computer. I'm more inclined to believe that Office 2004 and Firefox are just not very speedy programs on the Mac platform in comparison to a PC.
I tried the Office suite that comes with the iBook but I don't find it appealing. I also tried Open Office, but apparently I need X11 (whatever that is) and its only recommened for Unix-savvy users. I've tried Camino browser, but it crashed a couple times so I tossed it into the trash. I'll try Saffari, even though it reminds me of Netscape (bleh).
The slowness is particularly noticable when scrolling through a document with the scroll bar. If I'm scrolling thru a document in Word or in Firefox, the scrolling is rather sluggish. If I scroll through the document fast (but within reason) the scroll bar will fall behind the mouse. If I do this repeatedly with the Activity Monitor open, I can see the CPU usage skyrocket. I still have ram free.
I've got my performance level set to Automatic, and I'm using wall power. This are no different if I set the energy saver to high performance.
Anyhoo... I don't imagine there is anything wrong with the computer. I'm more inclined to believe that Office 2004 and Firefox are just not very speedy programs on the Mac platform in comparison to a PC.
I tried the Office suite that comes with the iBook but I don't find it appealing. I also tried Open Office, but apparently I need X11 (whatever that is) and its only recommened for Unix-savvy users. I've tried Camino browser, but it crashed a couple times so I tossed it into the trash. I'll try Saffari, even though it reminds me of Netscape (bleh).