I have a 300 mhz Mac G3 that I like to work on. Problem is, it has a recurrent problem with keeping up iwth my typing. I type 60-70 wpm when I’m in the groove, so it SHOULDN’T have this problem.
It has the problem when I’m typing in a Mozilla browser window AND when I type in Microsoft Word, so I know it’s not the app. It’s got 320 megs of RAM and plenty of open space on the hard drive, so I know that’s not the problem.
I can’t figure out what the problem is, because the Mac is so damn slow.
On Mozilla, I have to wait for the Mac to get lost, becuase if I don’t some of the characters I type in will get “lost” and my words will come out even more gibberish-y than usual. If I wait for the Mac to catch up, the cursor advances S-L-O-W-L-Y catching up one character at a time.
In Word, I can type in a phrase, but the cursor doesn’t follow it. If I wait a few seconds, the cursor suddenly appears with the whole phrase behind it - not one character at a time. Word doesn’t seem so prone to “lose” characters.
What the hell is going on here, the computer shouldn’t be that fucking slow – 300 mhz is 300 million operations per second – even with plenty of maintenance going on, that should leave room for my puny 5 or 6 characters per second.
I blame the software. But why does the problem occur with two distinctly different pieces of software then? System? I’ve tried general controls, there’s a control for cursor blinking but not for text entry.
And yes, I’ve tried running the system with just Mozilla up and just Word up – same problem. Though it DOES seem to be not so bad when I first pull Mozilla/Word up.
This is fucking weird … I used to have a 2.4 mhz Radio Shack Model 100 laptop. It kept up better than my Mac does.