Hi Sherman, I replied to a similar off-list query from Sven. I'm sure he won't mind if I repeat my response...
> I would like to use Quark, Photoshop, Word, > Entourage, IE, Graphic Converter and iTunes plus sundry utilities, incl > StuffIt Deluxe, mail checkers and calculators, all at the same time. Sadly, > OSX has other ideas. > > Have you tried using all these graphics-rich apps simultaneously on X? On > deadline? With people on the phone screaming for screen captures at the same > time? > > You see, it wouldn't unduly bother me if I couldn't do *all* this and more on > OS9... I could also painlessly rip Mp3s as well as download music while I > worked on OS9... now I'm caught in the upgrade loop I have no choice but to > allow at least *double* time for my essential workload, and put everything > else, and everyone else, on hold. In my experience -- I'm open to correction -- the more apps you use, the slower X goes, until it seems to have no direct bearing on processor speed at all... At least, it (rarely) crashes or freezes! I'm eager for Jaguar, to help move things along. I'm annoyed that Apple is charging me another hefty fee for it. My troubles appear to be consistent with other users of similar program-loads. Oh, if I use just one or two apps everything runs faster. Unfortunately, that's a luxury my deadlines can ill afford. Cheers from Down Under Ian Horner ----- > On 7/29/02 7:43 PM, Ian Horner said: > >> Graphite SE slot. > > It's always hard to determine what is acceptable "speed," but my wife has > the iMac SE graphite and is currently running OS X on it (it's an office > machine, I'm at home, and I can't recall how much memory is installed, but > it's certainly less that a gig -- might be 640). It runs acceptably fast to > her, and when I do diagnostics and maintenance on it, I don't notice that > it's unreasonably slow (I'm used to a PowerBook/667). > > All this by way of saying: do you think something else is going on? It > doesn't sound right to me. > > -- > Sherman Wilcox -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
