Re: 3400c & Mac OS 7.6.1 - Slow Window Redraws

[Daniel De L'eau]

I have a 5300c, and have run 7.6.1, 8.1, and 8.6 on it.  7.6.1 can feel quite slow, and I think that it's due to Apple's poor emulation of non-power PC code.  I purchased Connectix SpeedDoubler and it completely changed the way 7.6.1 felt; it was MUCH faster in opening windows and copying and everything else they claim speeddoubler does.  It's an older version so I wasn't able to use it on OS 8.x, but I can tell you that running Quicken 2000 (a power-pc native app) felt faster with 8.6 than with 8.1, maybe because 8.6 is completely power-pc native.

I still prefer using 8.6 because, while it takes five minutes to boot, and feels sluggish with opening windows and such, it crashed far less often than 7.6, thus more than making up for the time it takes to boot.  It just sleeps most of the time anyway, so the booting thing doesn't bother me.

Anyway, try SpeedDoubler!





I am actually surprised that 8.1 doesn't run faster than 7.6 on a 3400 with
maxed-out RAM. I have tried them both on a 5300 and 8.1 always seemed more
responsive to me, so I kept it there. I guess with the L2 cache, a 3400 can
emulate old code faster than it can execute the code in 8.1.
I wonder how fast 7.6 runs on a Kanga G3? I bet it would laugh at it.



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