William Ove wrote: >In the CorelDraw newsgroup a fellow was being chided for moving from Intel >hardware to Apple. He was asked "Well isn't that Mac much slower than your >old 2 gig Pentium?" He replied by saying, "Yes it is much slower, but in a >way that is impossible to really describe, you find that with OS X speed is >just not an issue." That is an accurate description of a multithreaded >system. The task that needs the resources gets the resources. > >That is very much the situation with OS X on 604 processors. Yes you are >well aware that your system is slow, yet for the specific given task you are >working at it seems fast enough at that moment. > >bill >
sorry about your luck, but OS X is not slow at all on my 450 G4, or my 700 mhz G3 iBook. it is also fast on my wife's 420 g4 upgraded beige DT. i had an 800 PIII at work and my Mac always seems faster. what Mac did you friend get that seems so much slower than a 2 ghz P4? it couldn't have been a 1.2 ghz or dual 1.2 ghz, as those would seem much faster. did he install 10.2 or is he running a 10.1.x iteration? that would make a difference too. -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
