At Least 10X slower on PPC G4 than version 2.11 - Paolo Cordone

Why do you expect an upgrade to run necessarily faster than a previous version? You have to consider feature set, development environment, etc., in order to do a proper comparison.
This is a completely new beast from version 2.

Paolo

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Thursday, May 01 2008 @ 02:43 AM PDT

At Least 10X slower on PPC G4 than version 2.11 - chris540

Why would someone expect an upgrade to run faster?

Perhaps because the developer had been talking about how the new version would use OpenGL for faster smoother animation?

I have considered the feature set, and apart from the new UI and new plottable items, there don't appear to be that many new features. The one feature I was looking forward too - smoother animation isn't there. It even grinds on this 2Gig core 2 duo. Perhaps Adobe will optimize AIR more in the future, but in the meantime I don't see a very compelling reason to upgrade from 2 to 3.

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Thursday, May 01 2008 @ 06:48 AM PDT

At Least 10X slower on PPC G4 than version 2.11 - libertyforall1776

AIR runs HORRIBLY slow on the PPC G4 -- hence all AIR apps are extremely pokey. AIR is a terrible choice for this app, it's a big speed hit.

Most developers, including M$, still don't get it...

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Thursday, May 01 2008 @ 11:49 AM PDT

At Least 10X slower on PPC G4 than version 2.11 - Paolo Cordone

> apart from the new UI and new plottable items, there don't
> appear to be that many new features

Interesting, I see lots of new capabilities: display and forecast of rainfall, temperature, wind speed/direction/, pressure, ozone, radar precititation, customizable elements, such as the ISS plots, aurora activity, etc. To me (and I guess to many others), these are "that many features".

Paolo

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Thursday, May 01 2008 @ 01:53 PM PDT