> I agree that I don't see a big difference with Thousands and Millionson the motherboard video but it's more noticeable when scrolling through documents. I'm concerned with scrolling speed because for me, scrolling speed is the biggest performance factor which makes a computer feel fast or slow. Waiting for the information to show up in an HTML or text document while scrolling around to find it drives me nuts.
Ah, see, I tend to do more in Terminal where it's not scrolling, it's rendering text in a translucent window... and millions really does seem faster there.
Wow, I don't do anything that serious in Terminal. I have no way to test that with the Rage128.
> By choppiness, I mean that the window doesn't move smoothly aroundthe screen, The transparent Terminal (I use 80x50 size) only updates the window location a few times per second with either of these video cards at Thousands or Millions. With the AGP Rage128 in the G4/450, it updates more than 30 times a second so it looks smooth when moving the window around.
I guess it's what you're used to. I got started using computers in 1972 when I got access to a timesharing system at my father's office. The first programming I did was hacking Hamurabbi so I could cheat.
So I have fairly loose standards... when somebody says something looks choppy I think in terms of seconds, not tenths of seconds.
I only started in 1980 with Apple IIs. For me the comparison is OS 9.x, whose video speed is *very* fast especially when compared to OS X. So I try to squeeze every little bit of performance I can from old hardware (which is all I have, except for the G4/450 @work). After using a G3/400 or so, try using a new Dual 1.25 GHz G4; wow, what a difference!
- Tom
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