----- Original Message ----- From: "David Elmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 5:37 PM Subject: [PCI] Re: OT: Is Panther Faster?
> Yes, it is an excellent question by Powermac. But, Mikie, of course you > concur! You can play with X on a well suitable machine. The reason for most > legacy Mac users is probably to see what X is like, for a bit of a look, a > taste, the satisfaction of actually getting it to run, sort of, and so on. > Some folk claim they are stable and they can actually do work on this > platform on older machines. OK. But for the rest, it's like running an old > car and putting in a few mod cons ... > > I have resisted the temptation so far. When folk used to go to OS 7 on Mac > SE30s I stuck to OS 6 because it ran quicker, no question. The majority of > people do want more modern systems without real evidence (anecdotes are not > really sufficient). More a subject for social psychiatry ... > > > Wonder what X would be like on my 7600 (G4 360MHz, tons of everything else) > ...? :) > > David Elmo > When OSX originally came out I tried a friends copy on my 8500 with G3-400/448mb ram, USB card, IDE card with 40gb HD and 48x cdrom. I found the machine was slow. Considering it wasn't my primary machine and that I liked using allot of vintage hardware in it at the time (Videovision Telecast, floppy drives, SCSI cdr and scanner) I went back to OS 9.1 and haven't looked back. I might be able to run the latest OSX versions of applications but the ones that run on OS 9.1 are very snappy. I see the same thing happening on the PC side where people with old Pentiums and low memory want to run Windows XP on their old machines. Sure it will install and run, but its painful to see in action. One the same machines windows 95/98 or NT 4.0 would run very fast and still be usable. Even a stripped down Windows 2000 would work ok, yet they want the latest and greatest and still complain about driver problems, slowdowns, and getting old games to run. I was just curious why people go through the hassle. When I get a machine running perfectly I tend not to mess with it until there is new hardware I really want to use or new software that wont run under the old OS. Even then I look into what's better using the older machine or just putting a new one together. One of the things I liked about the 7500 (the machine I ended up getting for a dedicated video capture machine) and old macs in general is how easy I can switch boot disks and run OS 7.5.3 to capture video on the ancient videovision hardware and then jump into OS 8.5 to work on it. Photoshop 3,4,5 is very old compared to the latest version but people who just dabble with Photoshop never really use the newest features so why do they have to put up with the latest bloat? -- 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
