windows vs apple MX

[Voncaster]

Okay its not my intention to start a war about what is better windows machines or apple machines. I would simply like to know if windows version of Flash MX generally works better than the apple version of MX.

I did a little summer internship for my dads office, where I used Flash MX to do some work. His machine is a 500mhz pentium III and it worked out fine. Now I use a 750mhz G4 with 500mb of RAM running OSX and its painfully slow. What gives? My computer is superior in both processor speed and ram, but it runs MX noticibly slower than on the PC.

Is this common? Do most flash users use PC or Apples? I'm a pretty devout apple user, but I would say PC users got the better version of MX imo.

P.S. if there is a similar post to this somewhere or a good article about it, could someone give me a link. Like I said earlier its not my intention to start a war here, simply I want some information and opinions.

[findShorty]

yup. i'm afraid the mac flash player is unbelievably slow compared to the windows version, plus there are many bugs and functionality problems with it, including javascript problems and fscommand issues.
rubbish, awful player, for a crap machine!!

[Hightech2]

taken from: gSOLO_01



Here are some of the numbers from FF03 NYC:



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:: Component Initialization Performance
Windows
Flash 6: 44 ms
Flash 7: 7 ms

Mac
Flash 6: 74 ms
Flash 7: 34 ms

:: Filling Array Performance
Windows
Flash 6: 1929 ms
Flash 7: 511 ms

Mac
Flash 6: 4674 ms
Flash 7: 1000 ms

:: Populate Data Grid Performance
Windows
Flash 6: 1353 ms
Flash 7: 357 ms

Mac
Flash 6: 3002 ms
Flash 7: 854 ms

:: Sort Data Grid Performance
Windows
Flash 6: 4098 ms
Flash 7: 678 ms

Mac
Flash 6: 10083 ms
Flash 7: 871 ms

[Voncaster]

So if your an apple user buy 2004.