![]() ![]() In other words, at a bare minimum, a quad-core i7 machine's CPU is at least three times faster than a Quad G5 (easily up to six times faster), and that's before you get to any other improvements in overall system performance (*) and differences in software. You don't specify which i7 you're comparing it to The *first* 3.2ghz i7, the i7-960 from late 2009, scores around 9,000, while the Haswell i7-4790S can top 17,000. The Geekbench 2 score for a 2.5ghz Quad Core Power Mac G5 is around 3,500. It might be slightly better because IE11 and Chrome are better browsers than Firefox, but you're still running up against the limitations of twelve-or-more-year-old hardware.Ĭlick to expand. You're not going to have a very good web experience with an x86 PC from 2004/2005 either. The first generation of Intel iMacs and MacBook Pros pretty much outran all but systems like the 2.7 and the Quad, and the Mac Pro took care of those very handily.Īnother thing to note is that in the approximately twelve years since the G5 was a contemporary product, the web has become insanely heavy. The Power Macintosh G5s in general were hypothetically good for a very very specific set of tasks when they were new, but only sort of because most commercial professional software never really optimized for it, so any advantage a G5 has over, say, a G4, is from pure brute force. Whether that's Stuffit's problem, the hardware's problem, or something else entirely, I couldn't say, but I will say that for my own part, my experience tracks with that reputation. To add: the reputation is that Stuffit was never particularly fast. Consider looking into an SSD if you must wring performance out of this, as a lot of tasks are I/O bound. Nah, you've just discovered that the G5 wasn't good at much other than looks. > I've started to wonder if this machine is a counterfeit of some kind. That I'm willing more to blame on Stuffit. It takes about 10 min to unstuff a 60MB file. > A couple of other things about my G5 performance, Stuffit 2010 (which is the last version that is compatible with 10.4) is very slow unstuffing files. (ckaiser does stuff, but he can't beat the mass amount of resources poured into optimizations for x86) I mean, what did you expect? Modern browser on a MUCH MUCH faster CPU stomps an older browser on a older, jankier (the G5 was not great, even at the time) CPU that its poorly optimized for. >The question I have is whether I should be expecting the snappy performance I get with Chrome on Windows > It's much slower than Chrome on Windows 10 with a 3.2GHz i7. ![]() I've started to wonder if this machine is a counterfeit of some kind. The question I have is whether I should be expecting the snappy performance I get with Chrome on Windows.Ī couple of other things about my G5 performance, Stuffit 2010 (which is the last version that is compatible with 10.4) is very slow unstuffing files. TFF shows me the USER AGENT field in the Troubleshooting info the following: It takes a lot of mouse wheel to get down the page. ![]() Scrolling through web pages is very painful. Activity monitor shows that TFF is using a very small amount of memory (~600MB) and CPU. MUCH slower.įor example, having two windows with about 5 tabs open makes tab switching really slow. It's much slower than Chrome on Windows 10 with a 3.2GHz i7. I'm using TenFourFox and to be honest it's slow. ![]() I have a Power Mac G5 (11,2) which should be a screamer with just about everything. ![]()
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