On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 03:39 AM, David Deckert wrote:
>> So you reckon 8.6 an 9.1 are about the same speed on a
>> 604e? Interesting....
>
> I agree, but you'll notice a longer boot time. Emasculate some of 9's
> extensions for stuff you can't use anyway and it gets closer. At the
> very
> least you'd want to go back through and disable all the USB, FireWire
> and
> whatnot your beige is blind to.
Well trimming the extensions on a lower end computer is one of the first
things I do, it only makes sense to turn off the useless crap.
> My folks run 9.1 on their 7500/200 and it's fine. 8.6 would still be a
> little faster. I always err towards the higher OS at the expense of
> ultimate
> speed, but that's my preference.
Me too.
> Look at it this way, Mark. You're not jazzed about 8.1 on your Q840 (per
> Quadlist) so you're backing down to 7.something. I predict it'll be the
> same
> issue with 8.6 vs 9.1 on the 604e.
I am actually sticking to 8.1 now, I still need HFS+ for my new 9GB
UWSCSI drive and it isn't so slow I suppose.
> At work we run 8.6 on Sawtooth G4s, but
> then we don't need any of 9's goodies. 8.6 and beige go together like
> bread
> and butter. Love it. But if your 7300 goes "all the way" with a CPU
> upgrade,
> USB/FireWire etc. get thee 9.1 on it.
It won't, I may put a USB card in it but that's as far as I'm likely to
go. It's a stop-gap until I can get a new iMac (I need a job first) then
it will take over as my server/MP3 player.
>> 80MB sound like enough?
>
> Sure, plenty, but not for anything with hi memory usage. 9 needs
> somewhere
> between 10-30MB more (I know that's a wide range) which could either be
> no
> biggie, or a serious issue with only 80MB total.
About the hardest thing it'll be doing is running FMPro 5.5 and Office
98. I don't think it'll choke. Besides I was going for 128MB, I just
wanted to know if I could skimp on RAM to save myself a few bucks. I
might buy an extra 2MB of VRAM for it, it made all the difference on my
7500 because I could have a decent screen size :).
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