amib8zs
Level 1
(4 points)
Q: Hope I bought enough computer/New Mac user
I am new to mac and got rid of a 12yr old dell/w98,old age slowwwwww,locked up.
The kid in the store told me from what I xplained all I would need is what I got.I told him the most capacity I would need would be for some tunes and photos.
"About this Mac"
2.5 GH Quad core Intel i5
6mb shared lvl 3 cache
4g mem
5 g hd
Some pages on the WWW load slow,blue bar sits for 15 20 seconds and if I stop and refresh,BOOM page loads rite up.
Is this due to the web site or did I not buy enough whatever.I dont know which components controls that funchtion.
My current connection is:
 | DSL Link: | Connected |
| Internet: | Connected |
| Connection Speed: | ||
| • | Incoming: | 1536 kbps |
| • | Outgoing: | 384 kbps |
Hope I bought enough computer?
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion
Allan Jones
Level 8
(35,176 points)
| Incoming: | 1536 kbps |
Not very speedy by today's standards. We have very fast internet at the house but I take my older MacBook Pro along when I volunteer at a local museum. They have the same service speed as you and the Mac, which is a speedy performar on cable at home, can take a long time to load some pages.
Another factor is "ping." In simplest terms, it is how long it takes the computer to negotiate witht a server. I've used 1500 kbps internet in a location that had a long ping time and it "felt" worse than dial-up. The ping at home is 40-100 depending on the server; the ping in that other location was about 2200. Nearly useless.
You can use this online tool to see both your ping and down/upload speeds:
Post what you get for "ping."
Every year, web pages get more complex and that means the slower speeds feel slower yet. You have enough computer but may be suffering from a too-slow ISP.
Oh, and welcome! Should have said that first!
