Hi group,
Almost every day at one point or another while editing a script or even
filling in an answer or ask dialog box the text entry slows to a
crawl. I remedy
this by saving and restarting Revolution. What causes this and how do I avoid
it? I'm on Mac osx.
Joe
Orlando
I get that too.
After quite a bit of investigation, I've concluded the following:
--My machine is a little too slow for the modern world. (466 mhz G4)
--Some people on the list say they never encounter this issue. I'd
guess they have faster machines.
--It's not just Rev. I get the same issue with Pages, for instance.
--OS X seems faster than OS 9 in some respects, slower in others. For
example, I never noticed the tiniest typing lag in Microsoft Word --
the king of bloatware -- on the same machine in OS 9, yet the machine
seems a little too slow for Pages in OS X.
--My machine shipped with a graphics card that is slow by modern
standards. I got a faster graphics card at Otherworld Computing. That
helped somewhat. Maybe it updates the screen faster, or maybe it just
takes some of the load off the CPU.
--The typing delay gets worse when more applications and documents
are open. Probably more RAM would help.
--This issue is inconvenient, but not an overwhelming obstacle to
using RR on my machine. If I get sick of it, I'll add another 512 K
of RAM before I do anything drastic. Personally, I hate to pay for
hardware that's newer or faster than I really need.
Hope this helps.
Tim
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