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Contrary to what Apple would have you believe, it is NOT twice as fast as IE at all, in fact from what I have tested so far it is actually IE that is twice as fast as Safari<
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On the forums it seems pretty quick. Using it now.<
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I ran my tests on Apples own website bigsmile<
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Been looking at that too. Still seems pretty quick to me.

All I know is that I REALLY want one of these - http://www.apple.com/iphone/ads/<
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They look cool except you have to sign up with AT&T wireless to get one. I used to have them and got all kinds of fake charges and it followed me for about 4 years before it finally gotten taken care of like a month ago. But the phone looks sweet I will wait for Verizon to get it.<
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I'm waiting for one of these http://htctouch.com<
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Originally posted by HuwR
Contrary to what Apple would have you believe, it is NOT twice as fast as IE at all, in fact from what I have tested so far it is actually IE that is twice as fast as Safari

it doesn't appear to be faster than Opera either, if anything Opera is slightly faster (as well as a lot nicer :P)
anyway on first use it managed to annoy me - some stupid autocomplete in the address bar making it kinda hard to go to lower directories on a site you've visited before... i presume it can be turned off but stupid all the same.<
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Originally posted by HuwR
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Contrary to what Apple would have you believe, it is NOT twice as fast as IE at all, in fact from what I have tested so far it is actually IE that is twice as fast as Safari

I recently added a Mac Pro 3.0 Quad and Safari doesn't seem to run any faster. Due to the lack of a right click button on the Apple mouse, I gravitate toward IE every time. <
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Seems that it will run faster once it gets going... not that there aren't other issues.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/11.html

But, it will simplify compatibility testing. tongue<
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when I referred to it's slowness, I was infact speaking of page renderring which for me on a dual core PC with 2Gb of ram is taking twice as long in Safari as it is taking in IE<
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Ah. I thought you were referring to the load time like most of the articles I've read. Does it really render that slowly? (I'm at work right now and I had to go through the 7th circle of hell just to get IE7 on my workstation...)<
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