Yersinia, Your operation sounds somewhat complex but I felt the same about dialup when accessing the web and certainly Safari and Cable work faster. I agree with you that if its not broke don't fix it but we had no option if we wanted to continue with CE but to get a dual system of 9/X. The only other advantages I see in System X are Dashboard (London and US time and the stock market), the Dictionary (being slightly better), the Dock (ability to expand/decrease size and placement on desktop), with the greatest improvement being Spotlight - but that seems to be it as far as I can tell :(
Bea >Bea writes, > ><Yersinia, > Do I understand that you use different applications for System 9 and >X, or >put another way, that some applications work only in one or the other?> > >Well, up until I just got this Quicksilver a couple of months ago, I >didn't use OS X at all. I was running a G3 Beige on OS 9.2.2. So >everything I've done since my first Mac in 1995 (I started with a >Performa 475, OS 7.5.x, then moved to a 7200/120 top OS 8.1, and then I >got the Beige which I ran on 9.1 for awhile, then up to 9.2.2)) was with >all these "legacy" apps. When I first started using OS X, I was not only >totally unfamilar with any native OS X apps (and pleasantly shocked as >all hell to see how well Classic ran my legacy apps!). Well, I was not >only happy with my old apps (mostly, more in a moment), but I obviously >had years and years worth of data (not including my email and CE!), but I >didn't WANT to change them. You know the old saw, "if it ain't broke, >don't fix it"? I'm a very firm believer in that one. The only area of >computing which I really felt needed improving, performance-wise, on OS >9 was web browsing, which was usually horribly slow. I blamed most of >that on my dialup connection, but Safari on OS X took the pain out of it >-- and I'm still on the same dialup connection I had on the Beige! Don't >ask how, but it did. But, that was my ONLY area of complaint prior to >getting OS X. > >So, I do all my browsing in Tiger now, with Safari. OS X wouldn't run my >chat programs in Classic either, so I downloaded OS X versions of them (I >use IRCle for IRC and AIM for instant messaging). > >The only one of my OS 9 apps that actually has a serious problem in >Classic Mode is my Sims game, but only in very particular circumstances. >For normal play, it's actually running better with Tiger than when I'm >booted in 9, but if I need to make one of my sims change clothes, or if I >want to create a new sim, I have to boot in 9 because in X, the graphics >are all screwed up: I can't see what the sim is trying on, or I can't see >the sim I'm trying to create: it's like the view is "blocked and broken >up." Hard to describe, but this is why I absolutely need to boot in 9 >occasionally now -- it's impossible to do either of these things in X. > >So -- the only OS X native apps I use at all (short of Dashboard and the >Dictionary) are in fact Safari and the OS X versions of AIM and IRCle. >For all else, I run my old apps in Classic Mode. > >Do I make more sense now? :-) > >~Yersinia. > > >________ > >"Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language." > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
