One thing I’ve noticed about my new iMac is that it seems to be a bit sluggish when downloading files. I don’t have any definitive evidence of this yet, but I’m downloading files from Magnatune right now from an album that I bought. On the iMac, I’m downloading the Flac copy of the album, on the Linux box, I’m downloading the WAV copy.
I started the download on the iMac first, and about a minute later I started the download on the Linux box. I’m using Firefox to download the file on the iMac, wget to get the file on Linux. So far, I’ve gotten about 82 MB on the iMac, and 157 MB on the Linux box.
I’m going to have to do some tests later when I have more time. Both machines have 1 GB of RAM, are connected to my home LAN via 100 MB Ethernet, and have roughly equivalent processors – the iMac has a 1.8 GHz G5, the Linux box has a 2.0 GHz Athlon CPU. Neither machine is running anything particularly intensive, or downloading anything else.
Has anyone else seen this, or am I crazy?
