Slow browsing - GPU? SSD?

VaderDSL

VaderDSL

VaderDSL

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Ok, I have a 2.53Ghz Mac Mini + 4Gb Ram and an 80Gb SSD.

My issue is that when browsing occasionally on picture heavy sites etc the browser stops responding for a few seconds.

Also on google maps going into street view locks up the system for a few seconds before loading.

Is this down to the 9400M, the SSD being a bit quirky or just the browser?

Cheers.
 
Hmm difficult to say.

I have a Jan'10 2.66 Mini with 4GB, 9400M and just a normal 320GB HD and not had a problem using Safari.

I have a 2.4GHz MBP3,1 with 4GB, 8600M GT and an 120GB and not had a problem either.

I don't use safari plugins.

Only thing that I can think that locks up a mac like that is waiting on the drive (my external drives will do then when they're spinning up).
 
Any chance you can try and load Engadget site for me? It takes my browser/machine about 5 seconds to respond.

I might just try putting the hard drive back in. I don't do much to warrant the SSD at the moment.
 
I think it's the site..

Basically it attempt to display a shed-load, including adverts at the same time (at least 300KB). Also whilst displaying the site, it's taking 30% CPU for safari and 30% for flash! That's 60% of my 2.4GHz C2D MBP3,1 just for a website.. once loaded flash is taking 30% continuously.

Looks like you may want to look at flash 10.1 or whatever was the new update that included hardware acceleration.

Hmm not going to install adobe flashplayer 10.1 as it requires you to use the adobe download manager.. which is just more crap on your machine. I got absolutely sick of apps installing masses of additional crap and it formed part of the reason for leaving the windows platform.
 
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Cheers for the info. I love OSX / Time machine. I have removed the SSD and reinstalled onto the stock 160Gb HDD and actually the machine doesn't boot up as fast but it seems more stable.

The sites I was having issues on before no longer lock up my machine.

All sorted now : Was definitely the SSD for some reason.
 
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