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Re:Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose by graeme on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:45AM (#6325800)
Interesting idea. However, my two year old machine that was top of the line in 2011 couldn't run the new maps.

This is not uncommon from what I've read.

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Re:Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose by cromwellian on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:57AM (#6325845)
Performance issues are valid, the Map obviously taxes machines more because it is using GPU rendering, but I would expect them to optimize it as time goes by.
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Re:Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose by manku_timma on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @04:55PM (#6330423)
But why release a version that has performance issues even on two year old hardware without optimizing it first. The new google maps is slow to the point of unusability on my two year old hardware. I can live with the rest of the UX changes, but not with the magnitude of the slowdown.
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