[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Interesting. On another list the thread about this has been "Why almost >all connections with OS X are slower than with OS 9....another reason to >wait until it's improved before using it". That's just hogwash. Check this out: When moving a GB over Appletalk and TCP/IP under OS 9 on both machines, it used to take 20-30 minutes to move it over if you had old 10T ethernet ports. If only one of those machines are OS X, it takes 4-6 minutes. This have been true at least on my Beige G3 and different books, like the blue iBook, The Wall Street Powerbooks and so on.
Also, if the network is so slow, how come the browser Safari beats the pants off, runs in circles round, pulverize (I think you get the picture) all OS 9 browsers when it comes to speed? That, my friend, is a fact. It's not a little bit faster, it's like 6 times as fast for most pages! Also, about slow, if you use 10 *active* apps in OS X, the front app will be slower as the background apps get equal part of the processor. It's supposed to work this way and it's good. Welcome to preemptive multitasking. But, and this is a big but, if the application is sitting idle in the background it should use close to nothing of the CPU. Well behaved apps that have been made by OS X versed programmers, behave like this. Badly coded apps, that have been made by programmers who think they can treat OS X like OS 9 drain your CPU even while sitting idle. Guess who's to blame? This is actually true also in OS 9, it's just that OS 9 give almost all CPU to the front application, so you don't notice it as hard. Also, if you have too little RAM (less than 384), VM will be used too often and will make the box feel slower than it really is. Give it 512 or more. How much is 512 MB? $50-60? >I really haven't done any testing on that myself, I don't use X for >internet stuff...I find the whole system to be too slow all around for >now. Plus I can not get PDF files created by X to open in OS 9. Don't >know what's up with that. I don't have this problem. Can you please describe versions of OS and all apps involved and how data flows exactly? Also, you should use a flatten application as PDF in OS X (those made in the OS) are often overly large. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
