I suppose you could experiment with no flash at all using an extension and see if that changes things. Certainly flash has it's own memory cache and Apple is no

I suppose you could experiment with no flash at all using an extension and see if that changes things. Certainly flash has it's own memory cache and Apple is none too pleased with it. Personally, using a Cr48 with 2GB memory, I don't see much performance difference between that and chrome my 27" iMac with 8 gb or winxp at work with 4gb.