HW graphic acceleration was missing...

ddma

ddma

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I always heard that HW Graphics acceleration in OS X was missing and now I found that is really true. I recently read a article which talked about "Why Do New iMacs Surf So Slowly?":

Jimmy Grewal, Microsoft's program manager for the Mac version of Internet Explorer, agreed that the problem lies with OS X, not the browser. In particular, he said hardware graphics acceleration was largely missing from OS X at this stage in its development. "The effort of drawing something to the screen (on Windows) can be offloaded to a graphics card, but in OS X the CPU is heavily involved," he said.
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So, don't blame about the web browsing speed, let's hope OS X 10.2 get better! :)

Original Article:
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51926,00.html
 
This has been discussed and flamed already.

It's a 50/50 mix. Microsoft just doesn't want to take blame that IE is the worst OS X browser at rendering.

I'm sure acceleration will get better with 10.2, but it'll still take Microsoft to release a half-decent rendering browser to take advantage of it.

And fyi, it's not a good idea to take whatever Wired and Microsoft tells you to heart :D

Move along, nothing to see here ;)
 
Yea. But since I have upgraded my system from iBook to PowerBook, I still found the resizing thing slow. I hope OS X 10.2 will make a full acceleration on graphic cards! :) Just a hope.

Anyway, I think OS X is still so young yet.
 
Originally posted by MacPain
ie is just a bad browser.

speed and rendering is quite nice with chimera and mozilla.
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IE is bad. Mozilla and chimera is still way too slow on my computer. Long pages take 30 seconds to render with them but less than three with my windows machine (P3 600 mhz).

The wired article is right. It's a good thing that they didn't look at the iBooks. Apple would look even worse.
 
Um... is this news?

I think we've had multiple discussions here about the fact that MacOSX.com does NOT offload any of the aqua graphics stuff to the graphics card. I've known about this for a while, now.

Also, the Mac has historically always been a little slower in web browsing, but I find that OmniWeb and IE are both totally acceptable on my G4 cube (so I can't imagine how it would be unacceptable on a new iMac).

2 weeks and 2 days until a sneak peek of OS X 10.2. :)
 
Originally posted by vanguard


IE is bad. Mozilla and chimera is still way too slow on my computer. Long pages take 30 seconds to render with them but less than three with my windows machine (P3 600 mhz).
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gimme a link please. i'd like to try out those long pages.
 
Um... is this news?
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No, this is not a news. Just a discussion. And yea, that makes me now has a hope on the speed! At last, now (10.1.4) is not running at the max.
 
It OmniWeb that page took me about 10 seconds to load, and in Chimera it took about 6 seconds to load, but the browser froze for that time.

IE choked on it also for about the same amount of time OmniWeb did, but it also just sat there until the whole thing popped up and once.
At least with OmniWeb you can read while it still comes in...
 
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