I wholeheartedly agree on not running the latest and greatest on older
hardware. I, however, am one of those who mentions that 8.6 on a 2300 with
56MB RAM isn't necessarily a bad thing. I use it on my 2300 and it runs
fine. Mind you, this is not my main system, and I am generally not surfing
the web or doing anything terribly memory intensive, so YMMV. However, my
230 has 7.1 and that is as high as I care to go. I still recommend 8.1 for
2300 users due to the increased PowerPC native code in the finder. If
someone has some reference which disproves this theory, let me know. So,
basically, I wanted to say that it isn't necessarily faster to run 7.5.5 on
a 2300, especially if you can pare down 8.1.
Tom
<snip>
> System 7.5.3 & 7.5.5 are the fastest ones available for your
> machine. But
> everyone on this list will say you should use at least 8.1
> and preferably 8.6.
<snip>
> The same principles apply to web browsers. Everyone will say you need
> the lastest and greatest, but they won't say a thing about
> the speed penalty.
<snip>
> As you see it gets down to a matter of taste...whether having
> the latest,
> most sophisticated and complicated software is the most appealing or
> whether having optimal speed and simplicity is desired.
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