Testing the iMac G5 vs. Intel video

Rob, E, sometimes you just need to reboot. I'm sure both of you have felt some twinge of annoyance at waiting for something SOMETIME. Chill out, sounds like you're the ones who have a problem.

"people care because they simply don't like to wait for their Mac to boot"

WTF is the big deal on waiting? One minute once a month or so? Me, and every Mac user I know only use sleep, not power.

E, people care because they simply don't like to wait for their Mac to boot. I know I don't, especially if there's a minute difference involved. Busy people like things to happen fast!

But this test really was screwed up... my PowerBook boots up much faster than the G5 did. Maybe they'd just installed 10.4.4 on the G5 and rebooted?

WHO THE F CARES! I don't get this at all. Please, do you really care if your mac boots 5 seconds faster? How often do you actually have to boot up your mac anyway and is 5 seconds of your life really going to kill you? All this attention lately to boot up time. Crazy.

I'd much rather see how much better photoshop performs and all the other tools I need to use to make a living.

Heck, I can't even remember the last time I needed to reboot my G5.

My worthless 2 cents.

E.

Whoa you mean that they slowed down the G5 on purpose?! Thats crazy talk I can see from what you said how possible it is but what would they achieve by fixing it like that. I would think they wanted a clean fight as well.

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Take out ram, pulled the plug a few times during boot (the iMac might be doing a quick check to see if the hard drive is working ok)...hummm what else... done a huge update and installed a few apps that need a reboot (VPC, Office).

I booted around 1min 20secs THATS including my login and my wrong password enterance!

nobody has seemed to mention that before he 'rebooted' he had just removed 256mb of ram...

perhaps his system took so long to identify and update itself. there is no way he can compare a system that HAS been ready to a system that is GETTING ready.

what could he have done to make his mac sluggish like that?

This makes sense. I think boot-time is when the processor is least important. It's mostly about moving data from disk to RAM, no?