S-L-O-W text entry

[Timothy Miller]

>Hi group,
>
>Almost every day at one point or another while editing a script or even
>filling in an answer or ask dialog box the text entry slows to a 
>crawl. I remedy
>this by saving and restarting Revolution. What causes this and how do I avoid
>it? I'm on Mac osx.
>
>Joe
>Orlando


I get that too.

After quite a bit of investigation, I've concluded the following:

--My machine is a little too slow for the modern world. (466 mhz G4)

--Some people on the list say they never encounter this issue. I'd 
guess they have faster machines.

--It's not just Rev. I get the same issue with Pages, for instance.

--OS X seems faster than OS 9 in some respects, slower in others. For 
example, I never noticed the tiniest typing lag in Microsoft Word -- 
the king of bloatware -- on the same machine in OS 9, yet the machine 
seems a little too slow for Pages in OS X.

--My machine shipped with a graphics card that is slow by modern 
standards. I got a faster graphics card at Otherworld Computing. That 
helped somewhat. Maybe it updates the screen faster, or maybe it just 
takes some of the load off the CPU.

--The typing delay gets worse when more applications and documents 
are open. Probably more RAM would help.

--This issue is inconvenient, but not an overwhelming obstacle to 
using RR on my machine. If I get sick of it, I'll add another 512 K 
of RAM before I do anything drastic. Personally, I hate to pay for 
hardware that's newer or faster than I really need.

Hope this helps.

Tim