As promised I have the results from testing OSX with 80meg RAM vs
112meg. Ok, Ok. I know I'm selling a few of these 96meg cards (when I
find them) but I promise these results are unaltered :-)
So, I downloaded Xbench software and ran it on my 2400 G3 400mhz/80
then I upgraded to 112meg and ran Xbench again.
Xbench does a slew of tests on ram, video, disk etc etc and seems
extremely thorough. I took about 5 mins to complete the test.
Without going into specific detail on everything that Xbench reported,
here are the results:
2400 400/80 Average Score = 24.26 (in 10.2.2)
2400 400/112 Average Score = 26.73 (in 10.2.2) without doing the math
it's about a 8% increase. Not huge, but I can certainly feel a
difference.
So I conclude (as expected by everyone) that OSX with 112 meg of RAM is
faster. The biggest speed increase, as reported by Xbench, seemed to be
in the area of RAM (suprise!). Everything else (even disk) was also
accelerated but to a lesser degree.
Phil
P.S. An Interesting side-note: after upgrading to 10.2.3 and rerunning
Xbench the final score was slightly slower than with 10.2.2...strange,
as most people say that 10.2.3 is noticeably faster than the previous
version.
2400 400/112 Average Score = 26.42 (in 10.2.3)
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