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Old August 9th, 2005, 08:04 PM
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I dont think the problem is that sites are optimized for IE. Heck apple.com comes up faster on the PC. Anyway at my last job, one of the designers was using a dual G4 500 with 768mb RAM and at the time he was running 10.2.x. He asked for a windows box because he wanted to learn a little since he'd never used windows (or not really). All I had was a toshiba satellite PII 300 laptop with 192mb RAM running XP Pro. He comes to me a few weeks later frustrated asking why in gods name is surfing 2x faster on the slow as dirt laptop than on his dual G4. I had no real answer but I watched him surf and I noticed that the browser appeared to be loading pictures and things one at a time but doing a bandwidth test revealed equal bandwidth as the laptop.

If I was using that computer, I would I'd hurl myself over a cliff and then grab the G4 tower with me so we could both plumet to our end.
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