On Jul 19, 2004, at 3:14 PM, nhc_design2004 wrote:
And another question while I think about it:
There has been a bit of discussion about OSX recently. To me, a newer system
always meant slower performance. How does OSX compare speed/performance wise
to OS9 on a PCI Mac?
OS X has been slower than OS 9 for sure, until 10.3, which finally caught up. That said, OSX was so ridiculously more capable and stable than OS9 it's not even funny. Moreover, OSX does more things at once *far* more gracefully than OS 9.
On a PCI mac, I've only run os X 10.1 and 10.2, and it was slower, except for some of the programs I use, notably mozilla, where it rocks. Mozilla under OSX is faster than Mozilla on a PC using similar systems.
I have a spare G4 450MHz Sonnet upgrade I can apply to the PCI machine - Do
I assume that X on a standard PCI Mac is not worth bothering with?
Not really. I had 10.2 running on my 7600 with a 400 mHz G4 and it was quite acceptable. With sufficient memory (512 mb is a good start) OSX ought to be usable on a PCI Mac. Go to OWC <http://www.macsales.com> and check out XPostFacto, peruse their forums. That's all dedicated to supporting unsupported macs under OSX.
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