Posts Tagged ‘speed’

Apple has boasting over its Safari 4 for the past few days. The new iteration of the web client claims that it’s the fastest of all the web browsers available currently. According to Apple, Safari 4 is powered via Nitro engine that renders JavaScript 4.2 times faster than the engine used in Safari 3. Another prominent feature of the 4th version of Safari is that it’s the first web browser to support HTML 5 database and advanced CSS features.

But still it doesn’t mean that the Safari 4 will bring an end to all the browsing issues. Certain lab tests show that the Safari is still open to hacking and lacks a full proof code. Charlie Miller, who embarrassed the Apple MacBook Air and was the winner of last year’s Pwn2Own hacking contest, stated that Safari 4 is easy to crack and can be hacked multiple times. Apple has always been disgraced for its unsecured codes and this time also it seems that the company will fail to offer a much secured web browser.

Apart from this the experts believe that the Safari 4 will not offer anything faster in real time. No, that doesn’t mean that there’s some problem with the Nitro. Nitro engine is very much enhanced and works fine under controlled conditions but when it comes to real world web browsing the main bottlenecks are the bandwidth available for downloading content and workflow of the application. It simply implies that a poorly designed web site cannot be loaded speedily, although the Java Script engine can render the pages and execute the content at a blazing speed. So, this is not actually a problem of Safari 4 but as far as the code security is concerned the developers can still do something extra.

Platinax, UK - Oct 25 2007
The Safari 3 Windows beta proved to be the fastest browser in terms of page load time in all tests. However, the differences between Safari and IE, …more

Safari Beats IE, Firefox in Browser Speed Trials
PC World - Oct 24, 2007
“What we’ve got here is…the fastest browser on Windows,” said Jobs at the time. WPI’s measurements backed up Jobs’ claim that Safari was 1.6 times faster …

Was it in my last post that I was shouting at the top of my voice that Safari 3.1 is the fastest loading browser of all? No it was earlier than that because I did blog saying the Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 is marginally faster. Now it seems Safari 3.1 is indeed faster then came […]

A hard drive with a capacity of 250GB, Maxtor Basics Portable 250GB is a hi-speed USB with dimensions 2.4cm width, 9cm depth and 12.9cm height. This external hard drive has a spindle speed of 5400 rpm and transfers at the rate of 480 Mbps. Available with 3 years warranty, it weighs a mere 220gm.

ASUS, the pioneer and leading producer of ultra-mobile Internet devices, have launched its highly sophisticated Asus Eee PC 1000 HG net book that allows users to reap the benefits of high-speed mobile broadband connectivity.