At 7:03 PM +0000 1/23/04, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>On 5 Jan 2004, at 12:14, Bill Cole wrote:
>
>>Yes, but you can get 95% of the same thing for free from VNC. Unless you use the 
>>esoteric TB2 features like NetMeeting compatibility or need to manage an old Mac  
>>for which a VNC server isn't available, you might as well skip TB2.
>
>I can't agree with that. I run both VNC and Timbuktu and there is a big difference, 
>above all in performance. I am now in England and I can manage my servers in Japan 
>(both running Mac OS 9 and X)  comfortably with Timbuktu 6.03 but when I try to do 
>the same thing with VNC it feels like viewing a slow motion replay.

Controlling a Classic mac  with Timbuktu is fine, even from an OS X Mac. But 
controlling an OS X Mac via TB2 is painfully slow. So I still use TB2 to manage 
Classic Macs, but I removed TB2 and installed VNC on a couple of X Macs.

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