On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 06:14 , (G-List) wrote: >> On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 01:31 PM, Craig Rodgers wrote: >>> I wouldn't bother with OS X based on your mothers needs, OS 9.1, or >>> even 8.6 will run much better on a 233, even if you clock it up to >>> 300Mhz OS X will still be slow. I have a 333Mhz beige with a Rage 128 >>> Pro video card and an ATA/66 card, and OS X, while usable, is much >>> much less responsive than OS 9.1. >> >> while it ain't a Beige G3, my experience with an original bondiblue >> iMac >> 233 with all of 96mb ram tell me that this just ain't so. The 233 with >> 10.1.5 never ran faster or better under any of the installed classic >> OSs(8-9.2), and it never crashes! > > I agree that OS X is a wonderfull OS, but the speed hit is there, and > I won't be using it as my main OS until the G4 550 ZIF I'm about to > order arives. I suppose it depends on what you do with it, it's fine > for email, web, word processing on a low end G3, but anything more > than that and you have a performance hit.
Craig, I joined the Apple fold _specifically_ for OS X. :) You're right that there is a performance hit, and it is very noticeable (at least until you get used to the speed difference) on a G3. That didn't stop me, however, from running OS X (and Dreamweaver, 4D Client, and Timbuktu in Classic) on a G3/300 with only 192MB of RAM. Yeah it was slow, but since I "switched" for OS X, I didn't care. OS X itself (and native apps) weren't really slow -- slowness was experienced with Classic apps when compared to how they ran in OS 9. They were a little slow, but not unacceptably so. It's all in what you want I guess. :) Eagle -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
