quantum88 Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 I was at my universities bookstore the other day and got a chance to play around with one of the new Macbooks. Much to my suprise when I fired up iDVD and played around with the graphic menu templates, I found that the Macbook would actually stutter on some of the more intensive one. The Macbook I was on was a 2.0ghz white model with 1gb of ram....so I'm kinda wondering why it was stuttering?! Any Macbook users noticed this? Or is this just an isolated incident? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 It's not just the macbooks. I noticed when I was in the apple store that the dock especially was very sluggish. My hackintosh is much more responsive UIwise than any of the macs I checked out... with the possible exception of the iMac. But the Macbook and the Mac Mini were real slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigboss Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 It's not just the macbooks. I noticed when I was in the apple store that the dock especially was very sluggish. My hackintosh is much more responsive UIwise than any of the macs I checked out... with the possible exception of the iMac. But the Macbook and the Mac Mini were real slow. ive seen that even the 2ghz mbp can stutter sometimes. with the macbook and the mini, the problem is the gma graphics card and with the macbook pro, its the problem with the clocks on the x1600. but, the 2ghz imac shouldnt give you any problems at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quantum88 Posted June 11, 2006 Author Share Posted June 11, 2006 I remember reading somewhere that you can adjust the amount of ram the gma graphics claims from the system memory to increase performance...is this true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 You'd have to get into EFI somehow and change it there, just as pc people need to do on BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigboss Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 even then, its probably a limitation of the graphics chip so the added graphics memory might be inconsequential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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