> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 06:48:43 -0800 (PST) > From: Sionnach Aisling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> And you would try?? Eeeek! You've got more patience > than I do :-) I can't imagine how slowly OS X would > run on a regular 7300. I'm assuming by this that you > just have the standard 180 or 200Mhz processor and > haven't done a daughter card swap.... OS X uses resources differently and I think that results is speed being perceived differently. I installed OS X on a 7500/200 with 140meg memory. It was easy to say that the system was slow, but it was difficult to pin point what exactly was slow and why it was slow. I moved OS X to an 8600/300 with substantially more resources and found it odd that OS X really did no better. In a cross platform software news group a fellow switched from a PC with XP to a Mac with OS X. He was questioned if the software ran slower on the Mac than it did on the much faster processor PCs. He responded that indeed it did run slower, but he added, the strange thing with Mac OS X is that speed is not really an issue. I have ran OS X on a 700MHz G4 and a 350MHz G3, and there is no question that the G4 is faster. However the 350MHz G3 does seem slow or unusable. I am not sure if that is due to the interface design, or system level resource allocation. It does seem to me that OS X is responsive over a much broader range of hardware, than previous Mac OS releases. OS X runs much better on a 7500/200 than OS 9 runs on a PowerBook 5300. bill -- \/\/i||i@^^ ()\/e -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
