On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Nick wrote:
> I have a 500 MHz Powerbook G3 (a.k.a.Pismo or 2000 edition or Firewire), 256
> Meg RAM, and have hesitated to switch to OS X. Any comments or personal
> experience would be appreciated from people who made the switch. I heard
> that under OS X I would not be able to play DVD movies on my Powerbook, is
> that true?
No. I have the same Powerbook, DVDs play very well on it.
I think that you would benefit from 512MB of RAM. I say this because,
adding up the reserved memory in use when I have a number of things going,
I do exceed 256MB, and you don't want to be swapping to virtual memory.
I've never seen swapping with 512MB (I don't however run Photoshop or
other large graphics/modeling apps); and I've heard of battery module
swapping and battery uptime issues with a full 1GB of memory.
If you haven't invested in OS X now, I certainly suggest waiting for 10.2
before doing so; not much point in going to 10.1.5 now.
I use this Pismo *in preference to* a G4 Powerbook, due to the convenience
of swappable modules (10GB drives and dual batteries, mostly). While I'm
not saying it's as fast as a G4 800MHz, that should give you an idea of
how satisfied I am with OS X performance on a Pismo (I never run 9.2 or
Classic, can't report on that).
KeS
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