On Friday, December 31, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Lou Judson wrote:
Genuine curiosity question: Why would anyone want to run OSX on an old computer? It seems to me that such a bloated gimmicky OS would naturally run slower on an old system... Is it just to prove it can be done, or do you actually expect to see benefits? Or because you don't want to invest in a newer Mac that is designed for it? (I doubt this last)
Because it's not a 'bloated gimmicky OS.'
OS X 10.3 runs about as fast as 9 does on these systems, provided you have sufficient RAM.
10.2 is only a little slower. 10.3 runs perfectly fine on my original clamshell iBook with a 266 mHz processor and is, imo, far more usable than the original software that came with it.
Firefox under OS X, for example, runs so much faster than any browser on an OS 9 machine it's not funny.
The different between Mozilla on OS 9 and OS X, even the same versions, is like night and day.
Moreover; OS X runs better once you start doing more things at once, even on these old systems.
These are still usable systems, though, I'll admit, a 266 MHz G3 is about at the bottom end of usability, it is actually usable, and OS X is so vastly superior to OS 9 that I'd take it any day.
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