Damn, I'm so glad those Macs are so technologically advanced. Think how bad it would be it they weren't....

Why Do New iMacs Surf So Slowly?

Tests conducted by Wired News confirmed reader complaints that a new 800 MHz iMac takes an average of twice as long to render Web pages as a comparable or cheaper PC running Windows XP. Even on broadband networks, the iMac's default Internet Explorer browser took an average of 10 seconds per page to render several popular sites, including CNN.com and the Apple Store homepage.

Slashdot discussion pages and some weblog sites took even longer, despite their lack of fat graphics. The diagnosis: The problem is not a bandwidth issue caused by fat HTML, but an annoying delay in actually drawing the page onscreen after its components have been downloaded.

"I spent $1,800 on a computer that's slower than the $400 eMachine it replaced," one iMac user wrote in an e-mail. ...

... The culprit, it turns out, isn't the new iMac's hardware, but its operating system, which Apple focused on getting to market first and bringing up to speed later. ...

Personally, I've always admired the approach Be took, namely toss out everything and start from scratch. Too bad Apple blocked the BeOS from working Mac hardware, and Microsoft crushed their migration in the generic PC direction.