on 9/26/01 3:22 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > He was probably hoping to do it for free.
Don't we all ;-) > If you're going to shell out for > an upgrade (and it really is time to upgrade if you're using 8.1), you might > as well go all the way to OS 9.1 for an extra $10 or so. Or, if the computer > is a G3, go all the way to OS 10.1 even if you're not planning on using it > yet. It includes an OS 9.2 CD you can use now. If it is a G3, then yes... by all means he should go to 9.x. But it runs like a dog on anything below that. Try putting anything above 8.6 on a 8100 and try and tell me you don't take a significant performance hit. With every update, it usually requires more of the Mac's RAM just to run the OS, so a user that was running just fine at 8.1 may experience memory errors when trying to do the same task in 8.6. If you have a lot of RAM in your machine, this problem is lessens or eliminated, but allot of users never upgrade their RAM over the base level it shipped with. I have three beige G3's on my network and are happily running 8.6, it is a very stable OS and there is no compelling reason to move them to 9.x. Now if a application you need to run requires 9.x then that is another thing, but I have yet to see a new app that runs under 9.x that won't run under 8.6 since any carbon application that that is released will support 8.6 with the carbonlib extension. I would also not recommend 9.2.1 to anyone who is not installing 10.x since it is just a classic tune up and offers little benefit over 9.1 as the default OS. --Mark -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
