on 7/8/02 5:05 AM, Walrus Webtech at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This all sounds great, but how well would 9.1 work on a stock 3400/180 with > 144 megs of ram? > > I am really tired of the constant crashes in 8.1 with any browser. I doubled > the memory allocation for IE 5.1 and it is better, but I really get tired of > waiting five minutes for the spinner to stop so I can switch to another task > (I'm always doing two or three things at once it seems). > > iCab crashes as bad as IE, so does Opera. People say 'UPGRADE!' but I used > to do it on my Pentium 100 and Windows95 all day without having to wait like > that (or resort to asinine things left over from the 80s like manual memory > allocation!) Of course it took years to get the Pentium configuration right > so it WOULDN'T crash semi-hourly. > > I won't go back to windows and don't have the money for an iceBook, but did > everyone in the late '90s put up with this kind of stuff on Macs? I have a Powerbook 3400/180 and have never had a problem with crashes, and I only have 80megs of ram. It boots a little slow, but is very stable. I say UPGRADE! Do it today!!!
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