on 12/7/02 19:38, Tim Collier at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > problem one.....nor crash one! I have the latest Internet Explorer on it > and Office X. I use Photoshop 7 and can even play games such as > Civilization, Tropico, Black & White and Age of Empires on it. Hell, I even > connect to AOL with it. Still not one crash....yes, occasionally a program > will quit unexpectedly but the system goes on running. I don't even boot > into OS 9....never much cared for it anyway.... > All this leads to my question. What kinds of Macintoshes are you people > running OS X on? 7200's?
A "Blue & White" G3/450 (roughly 1/3 the speed of a QS G4/867) with a 12 GB drive and 0.5 GB RAM. OS X is pretty stable but there were a few blips early on (before November/2001 for the most part so you didn't have to experience them). OS X is probably the *most* stable consumer OS that exists (I haven't got enough experience on XP Professional to comment on XP Pro), but there are some glitches that will get ironed out as OS X evolves. You may have experienced fewer glitches because Apple is designing OS X with the newer G4s in mind first and foremost, and all the older G4s and G3s as an afterthought (we sold 'em, they're not that old & we'll piss a lot of people off if we stop supporting them *too* quickly). The only kernel panic that was not hardware related (computer gets hot (room temp exceeds 25�C + humidity) = not very happy computer), was caused (& repeatable) by Internet Exploder and Flash (which I ranted about a few days ago I think). I think the web site was www.cbc3.ca (or something like that)... the problem went away with an Internet Explorer update (5.1.2?). I wish I could get a G4 (even just an upgrade chip) but since I'm a starving grad student I have better things to spend my limited funds on (like food, rent & tuition). Plus, what would I use a faster computer for? Opening my web browsers faster, running macros in Excel faster than I can think, having Word run faster (to what end... I can only type 50-60 WPM & a Commodore Pet with its meagre 16 K of RAM could handle that)). I guess I'd be happy to be able to run PhotoShop faster (& I'll only be doing this research for another 3-4 months & I only use PhotoShop for a tiny fraction of my work (but, unfortunately it is by far the best tool for the job for the price (real mapping software for what I'm doing would cost in the $1000s and I'm not really slowed down by PS *that* much (plus, this is an anomaly in my supervisor's research so there's no money for software that'll get used once)). Eric. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
