So I got an Intel Mac

[crazzyyfool]

You can certainly tell when an app is running under Rosetta and when its native cant you. Might be just down to the frame rate of the 3gp video though. Nice vid btw matey.

[Detroit]

lol, vlc took it's sweet time, but safari went BAM BAM right after the restart and only with 512mb of ram

[crazzyyfool]

Yeah. There seemed to be a lot of lag with screen redraw with apps running under Rosetta.

[myst]

Funny video...the overall performance is a little bit slow as i can see, imho.

BTW does the new imac have 512mb ram on board or more?

[john smith 1924 Veteran]

Simon - grab me on MSN - lets do a mini review!

[Si Veteran]

You can certainly tell when an app is running under Rosetta and when its native cant you.

Yes you can, there is definitely some lag there :yes:

[Detroit]

Simon, if you have left over cash, I'd recommend upping your ram to 1-2gb,

it'll scream like butta :)

[Matt T]

Simon, I'm guessing you used a PC before this iMac? What are your PC's specs and do you feel that the iMac is faster than your PC?

[Brandon]

Link to Simon's video of his Mac.

Linkage.

how do I play it? .3gp?

[Matt T]

how do I play it? .3gp?

Quicktime 7.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html

[crazzyyfool]

how do I play it? .3gp?

QuickTime 7, VLC or RealPlayer all play .3gp video.

[Si Veteran]

Simon, I'm guessing you used a PC before this iMac? What are your PC's specs and do you feel that the iMac is faster than your PC?

Yeah my pc is over there (<--) :D

It's an Athlon 64 3500 w/1gb and a 6800GT. Desktop performance is about the same to be honest (well for native Intel apps at least). The slowdown comes from me not knowing how to do things in OS X :laugh:

I've not bothered trying any games, as they all need Rosetta and I feel that is probably asking a little much!

[Matt T]

Yeah my pc is over there (<--) :D

It's an Athlon 64 3500 w/1gb and a 6800GT. Desktop performance is about the same to be honest (well for native Intel apps at least). The slowdown comes from me not knowing how to do things in OS X :laugh:

I've not bothered trying any games, as they all need Rosetta and I feel that is probably asking a little much!

Cheers. Congratulations, by the way. :)

[toastyghost]

The speed of window resizing and drawing in native Intel apps is a vast improvement from every G5 system I've used. I wonder if they've enabled Quartz 2D Extreme on these new Macs?

[KeR]

I want one too :)

[Toastyone]

:D nice congrats on your new toy (Y)

[Miran]

Simon:

You should look up some of the keyboard shortcuts for OSX - most people don't realize how much of a keyboard-intensive environment it is (if you want to go relatively fast). I had a friend who has used Macs for about 5 years and didn't know about CMD-TAB. I showed her and she was extremely excited - I guess she had always used the Dock to switch, and Window pulldown menu to switch windows.

[pixated]

Simon try F9 and F10. You will wub it trust me. ;)

Here are some more.

http://guides.macrumors.com/Keyboard_shortcuts

[soccerji]

Sweet, I found a deal for 400$ off on canadian site :)

Now, it could only be 1600 for the 20" !

mind sharing the sweet deal with other canadian peeps ?

[sn00pie]

Great buy. (Y)