Acer 5630-6368 - Everything installed great...but why so slow?

[stangn99]

So,

Everything is working great on this laptop with the exception of wireless and audio. I think audio is possible, but I haven't really bothered to try yet.

 

What really bothers me is the performance. I noticed its a little slow. I xbenched with only CPU checked and it constantly returns 35.4

 

My Dual 2.0 G5 returns 128.

 

 

How come it is so slow? Any way to get the speed to "normal"?

 

Thanks.

[stangn99]

bump.

 

I'm on 10.4.7.

 

Would installing 10.4.8 help?

[stangn99]

Tried 10.4.8 also with the same results.

Its too bad because other than wireless, I got everything working. Audio, lan, power management etc....but just so slow.

 

I ended up wiping it to and put on Ubuntu with Beryl.

 

Does anyone have ANY clue why it would be so slow? does it have to do with Core 2 Duo?

[Eskun]

Same problem over here kind of.

 

I have a Gericom laptop with an AMD Sempron 3000+ processor, 1024MB-Ram and 128 ATI-Radeon XPress 200M.

My processor has SSE2 and SSE3 so OSX works perfectly, all OSX installs previously have all failed, but recently I had done another attempt with the same image (10.4.8) and it worked, everything worked except my wireless WUSB54G which I got to work within the first half hour, so I had a perfectly fine working OSX on my laptop for once, everything i wanted ran on it; Adium, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Firefox, xcode, etc. But things are just kind of slow, I checked whether the AppleTPwhatever .kext file was there to slow things down but it was not there. Especially Photoshop and Flash are kind of slow and my laptop's fan keeps saying Pfweeee all the time, its like the CPU is in use 50+% all the time.

 

Edit; Oh, and not to mention that the installations take A LONG TIME, xcode takes almost one and a half hour to install, and photoshop and flash apart each take at least about an hour to install, this is kind of making me sick.. >_<

 

On a topic in this forum I found out that the 10.4.8 image was kind of a beta which could run slower and the higher you go in versions the slower it may become on native installls (duh!), so now I am downloading "Mac OSX x86 104.3 build 8f1111 patched with Wesley's patch" (exact name) to see whether 10.4.3 would work better or not. So far I have tried 10.4.GENERIC (not sure what version it is, I think 10.4.7) and two other 10.4.7 installs.

 

Also I tried the tiger-tar.gz old install with VMWare but that is a total suck leaving you with a 6GB hard disk space and not even one application running. So that one was thrown away the second day after download.

 

So I am rooting for 10.4.3 and hope it will work.. >_>;

 

I hope you have found out what makes it slow, or good luck and I hope you will find it!