On Oct 5, 2004, at 3:30 AM, Mikael Bystr�m wrote:
Panther ran as well as or better than OS 9 on my powerbook G3 series 266
(WS II or PDQ).
No it didn't.
So what if I needed to use XPostFacto? It works very very well.
No it doesn't.
Working very very well would be getting it right on the first try. Or the first few tries. Without me having to look at documentation and browse through forums.
I had been using partitioned discs to separate OS from my data anyway, so
I don't see the fuss in having 2 partitions.
Having a 7gb partition and a 33gb partition is just morally wrong. I feel icky with partitions like that, I want the whole thing in one big partition.
Rather I �mbraced it as a small price to be able run the latest OS on old hardware.
I don't know what Wallstreet you were using, but Panther is more than noticeably slower. I have the same exact one as you, a 266, except mine has a 500mhz G4 and it STILL runs too slow. Keep in mind that I use my Wallstreet mostly for Final Cut Pro, Quark Xpress, and Dreamweaver and Photoshop, and the OSX versions of all these programs are quite silly on a Wallstreet II.
On another note... this goes out to all of you that like to claim OS X runs fantastic on Wallstreets and beige G3 towers. Typing text into TextEdit as fast as you can in SimpleText doesn't mean OS X is performing as well as or better than OS 9. OSX on these things is a dog. How you can not see this is beyond me. Somebody please explain this. Perhaps if your using one light application at a time, its suitable. But this isn't functional when you're trying to get actual work done.
The ONLY thing I can see running better would be server software (obviously) or anything that doesn't require you to actually sit down and use the computer.
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