Bob Schmidt wrote:
I have a couple of questions that I hope someone could answer. I have a 9600 upgraded with a G4/700 576mb of ram with a vodoo 16mb video card, and a sonnet ata 100 card. I also have a 4gb hardrive and a 10gb hard drive. I installed OSX.2.4 (I think) using expostfacto. I downloaded and installed all the upgrades, and everything worked. But I must admit that my computer seems dirt slow. Is there anything I can do to speed it up? When I used OS9.2.2 this computer was really fast. I like OSX, but I really don't want to use it if it is going to be so slow. Any help would be apprecaited.
One reason for the slowdown is no video acceleration due to the Voodoo card not being supported in OS X. You will need either the PCI Radeon Mac Edition (7200) or 7000 for OS X on a PCI Mac. The original Radeon is superior but no longer made. Also, take advantage of your ATA card by installing a newer, faster drive.
Even with fast everything OS X won't as "snappy" as OS 9.x, even on an AGP Mac with Quartz Extreme enabled. At least that's been my experience.
-RPM
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