> The improvement is more tangible on supported machines as the OS is 
> optimized for those, but I ran 10.2 on a 7300/G3/300 with 504MB of RAM 
> and Rage128 a while ago and it was slow as hell. I run the same RAM , 
> CPU and Rage128 card in my 9600 and it's much faster, apart from the 
> GUI which is laggy because of all the jazzy 10.3 effects.

I'd like to see a straight up comparison. I used to assume the Powersurge
motherboards were all pretty much comparable, but I've seen several comments
that the later models including the 9600 had some important improvements.

I'm running 10.2 on a 7500/G3/400 with 512M and on a Beige G3/266 with 768M
and each has areas they're better at, and I wouldn't call either "slow as
hell" except for when I want to run DivX video or do something else that
challenges my processors or memory bandwidth... things I wouldn't expect 10.3
to do much for... which is why I'd like to know more before buying stuff
and jumping in.


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