Re: OT (kinda): OS X?

[Gerald Wilson]

For unsupported machines, it's difficult to justify OS X on speed 
grounds. If you switch back to OS 9, you really do notice how zippy the 
machine can be. This is partly because - to get tolerable OS X 
performance from an unsupported box - you need to tune it up with extra 
RAM, faster cpu, better graphics, improved disks and so on. By the time 
you've done all that, the machine really flies in OS 9. Even with 
supported machines like B&W G3s and Silver G4s there's big mileage in 
improving the RAM, graphics and disks for OS X use.

However: the apparent responsiveness of the OS 9 GUI is only part of 
the story. Whenever I switch back to OS 9, I find in a few hours that I 
have locked or crashed the box and must restart, or maybe only crashed 
an app but still need to restart for safety. That's when realisation 
dawns. Unwanted restarts just aren't needed with OS X (Well, actually 
they sometimes are, but it's normally a sign that I'm engaged in some 
hardware or software foolishness). The difference in stability is 
enough to make OS X a system you can trust.

Of course, you can make the classic Mac OS stable. I have a router 
which runs on OS 8 24/7, but the reason it's stable is that it never 
does anything else but its background server jobs.

Stability of this kind is a curious thing. Classic Mac users aren't 
aware that it's missing, because it's something they've never 
experienced. They are simply used to restarting the Mac regularly, just 
as Windows users are used to the idea that worms and viruses are part 
of everyday computing life. Neither of these irritations are 
compulsory, as anyone from a UNIX background will tell you.

GWW

On 16 Mar 2004, at 23:28, Sven Radke wrote:

    2.) Besides software compatiablity, why have ya'll choosen to 
switch?
Are you happier with the switch than before?


at first try it was damn slow

at 2nd sight u can do almost everything at same time with no REAL 
slowdown. In my matter encode tunes with 100% cpu load with just a 
little lag in the gui. Do this in 9 and u can quit your work, surfing 
sessions and what else...

stability...

my old beige g3 server box' max uptime was 90 days plus with 10.1.5 
... and I only turned it off to do some hardware mods.. and if 
something really hogs u can think about rebooting the machine or not - 
in 9 u know the three finger keyboard trick...

just my 5 ..
cheers,
Sven


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