On Sunday, December 23, 2001, at 02:53 PM, Andrew Nielsen wrote: > To me, Mac OS X 10.1.2 running on a G4 at 400 MHz, and an iBook (dual > USB) with G3 at 500 MHz, seems fairly snappy now. No doubt there are > many more improvements that will be made in performance, but it's > certainly useable now. > > If only we had a backup program that worked. That's the main thing > I'm hanging out for now. > I'm also generally happy with the overall speed of MacOS X. Application launch speeds are acceptable in most cases, which was one of biggest bugbears in the beta versions. The true speed in MacOS X in my opinion can be measured by the gains in productivity produced by all the modern technologies - cooperative multitasking, protected memory, etc, resulting in absolutely no time lost because of system freezes, bombs and the inevitable loss of unsaved work resulting from these. MacOS X literally has never crashed since I started using it in earnest with 10.1. Even Classic apps have been much more stable.
I can live with the few remaining speed problems (which are still mainly in the Finder) until they are resolved in future versions. After all, MacOS X is still in its early days. My biggest complaint is still the lack of drivers for peripheral devices. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, :::::::::::::::::::::::: Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
