[wambotron]

My real complaint with google maps of late is how terribly slow they've been. I've tried on an android phone, an osx laptop, a windows desktop, all at different locations. The common theme is the abysmally slow load time. Bing maps has loaded quickly, as has open streetmap.

I'm not sure what's going on with their setup, but that's my only real complaint.

[babuskov]

It seems to me that CPU is the bottleneck as it requires a lot of processing power. For example it feels really slow both on my Intel Core2Duo computer and on my Samsung Galaxy S2 Android phone. On the other hand, it works really fast on 2014 MacBook Pro with Intel Core i7 and it's solid on Nexus 10 tablet (although, this has degraded a lot after upgrading it to Lollipop).

Apparently Google engineers are using top of the line hardware and nobody is aware of the issue. Looks like some dogfooding is required. :)

[McGlockenshire]

Yeah, the new maps is entirely unusable on older hardware, especially hardware without GPU rendering.