Re: Thoughts on OS X

[Gene Wieber]

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 03:47  PM, JW Holmes wrote:

Greetings all,

I currently own a PM 9600 with a Sonnet G3 500 and 640MB RAM, ATI Rage
Pro Video 128 Card, two 9 GB IBM UW SCSI drives on an ATTO SCSI card, 
and
the standard 4 GB drive on the internal SCSI bus.  I currently run OS
9.2.2 and I would appreciate any feedback about  several issues related
to moving to 10.2.2:

1. Is this machine adequate for OS 10.2 ), and will it give me
performance comparable to what I have with OS 9.2.2?
I started using Jaguar with the same Sonnet card you have. It worked 
fine; I later upgraded to the Sonnet 800 G4 when I spotted a good deal 
on eBay. I'm also running the same video card as you. It works just 
fine; without it, scrolling was pretty slow and jerky.
2. I am currently a subscriber to the Xpostfacto tech forum and I do 
read
the post relative to my machine. There does appear to be some issues 
that
you have to live with such as no sound control for external speakers.
I have a Bose system tied into my 7500, and I can reach down and adjust 
the sound on the bass/amp. However, I can adjust the sound level to 
some degree in iTunes--just not a very wide range. All my alerts come 
through the Bose setup.
3. I use Icab, and Mozilla and mozilla as my web browser and Powermail 
as
my mail client. Has anyone had any problems with these on an 
unsupported
machine with 10.2?
I don't use any of these, but Safari is really coming along and works 
well on 10.2.6.
4. I have an apple laserwriter select 360, will I lose the use of this
printer in 10.2?
This is the same printer I have. I connected with an Appletalk/Ethernet 
bridge. It was simple to do and really works well.
5. I have a verizon ADSL modem ( 640k) will it function under 10.2?
I was running a DSL modem on 9.1. When I loaded Jaguar, everything came 
up running automatically; I didn't have to configure anything for the 
internet. I was astounded.
6. Is OS 10.2 more or less reliable than 9.2.2 on these ( 9600) 
machines?
It runs great on my 7500. I had two kernel panics the first day. Once I 
got everything working, I haven't had a problem since, and that's 
fourth months ago.
7. Are there any gotcha issues that I show be aware of for converting 
to 10.2?
Have plenty of memory (I have 896MB) and room. I put it on too small a 
partition and ran into problems.


PM 7500, 800 MHz Sonnet G4, OS 10.2.6

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