Same, I tried like million of times doing everything to force that machine to work fine with flash and nothing helped it. Firefox, Safari and what’s called the other one, can’t recall…
@David - Flash works perfect on Firefox and any other browser, I ran it even on Flock without any problems. But that stands only for PCs. Mac was asking about Firefox on Apple computers. Unfortunatelly exactly the same story as with Safari. Macs are simply not built to run Flash, or should I say, Mac OS has some issues. Probably deals to much with all those bells and whistles, all those effects. So much of processor time waste on some non-important things, so there is nothing left for such a demanding beast such as Flash is.
I love that guy, with all his good and bad attributes. ;D He did something that no one else ever did before.
Anyway… you Kyle are our only hope. Do something regarding those possibilities to run MAC OS on PCs… it is not true that one person can not change the World. It IS very possbile… it’s just someone needs to bring that out… out loud.
Forums, newsgroups, whatever it takes… there must be something that can be done. I am also sure if that ever happens, that will be the end of Linux literally.
Sasha- What Bells and whistles are you talking about in Mac OS X that Vista Does not Have? Mac OS X does not hod the processor Even on the Old PowerPC G4 Machine im typing on (see the screenshot below) look at the % of the processor used by the system is less than 5% on an old 800Mhz G4
Kyle,
All this still boils down to the fact that Apple seems to be happy with it’s 3% market share.
With the attitude it currently has, that is probably all it will ever have.
Now that they are finally using an Intel processor, they have a great opportunity to grow but
apparently have chosen to remain in their tiny little cocoon.
Why not give them a push and show them the light. ???
True, Vista has all those bells and whistles too but I left it our intentionally just because Vista really has no problems with Flash. It plays fast as it does on XP. Mac obviously spends some extra resources on those effects not allowing other important things on screen to run smoothly.
Bob - Apple does want to grow. But they will not open up OS X. Apple tried it in the 90s and nearly went out of business. So that is why apple has that OS X only on Macs attitude
Sasha- i do not know why OS X has problems with flash when running on PowerPC Processors. However I do not think the the flash plugin is native yet (or the apps that create flash as Adobe owns it now and has not released any Universal applications yet) so that is why its horrible on the intel machines. it will really improve once adobe makes it run natively
David - Yea they tied the OS to hardware. But where can you buy a boxed retail PowerPC Processor like you can an intel or AMD? How about a Motherboard to install that chip on? See it would have been hard to build your own mac then anyway.
Sasha yes apple makes a lot more off of each computer they sell than say dell. another reason they dont want to open up OS X which the money they make pays me pretty well so I can’t complain
since i have a mini mac for my job work when did you think that might come out Mac…heard any release time or anything
there i told the forum i am a closed mac user also :o
An how long ago (How many weeks ago) did he say that???
By the way Mac you still haven’t answered the question as to why Apple
will not develope an OSX or Panther for the PC.
The "tried it in the 90’s explanation just doesn’t hold water. ;D
Apple would have to support ALL of the the hardware floating out there and as it is now its much easier to only support the software in their hardware
Mac sales, if you could install OS X on PCs the sales of macs would hit rock bottom and apple makes a lot of money from the hardware ( the $1199 iMac only costs apple about $875 thats a pretty big profit margin)
