On Jun 29, 2005, at 13:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 6/29/05 6:10:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< You should instead be complaining about all of the unnecessary eye
candy, not of the supposed inefficiency. >>
Hmmm. I wish I was more specific. let me rephrase. I sure wish I
could
turn off all this eye candy is OS X so that OS X would run more
efficiently on my
450MHz G4, which was a supercomputer 5 years ago.
You're still missing the point, Chris. OS X is not inefficient - it is
just doing a lot.
On Jun 29, 2005, at 13:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
since were on the subject, yes I miss the gool ole days when the OS
took up a
few KB. Im not asking to hinder development.
Actually, that is exactly what you are asking for. Apple, like most
computer hardware or software vendors, uses a business process known as
planned or controlled obsolescence. They plan for hardware to become
obsolete over time - to ensure continued hardware sales. They need us
to occasionally buy new computers, and in return they give us more
goodies (iLife, Aqua, etc.).
I just want an OS that wont run terribly slow on say, a 400MHz G3.
I have a B&W G3/300 with only 384MB RAM, and Panther runs just fine on
that. Now, I'm not trying to run Adobe Photoshop on it, but for basic
tasks there's nothing wrong with it.
I just want an OS that does its job, and
doesnt hog my CPU for things I dont care about. Dont get me wrong, I
like OS
X, I just wish I could tone down the graphics so that it ran better on
my
450MHz G4 with 896MB RAM, and a Radeon 9200 with 128MB VRAM. A
computer that
cost almost $500. In other words, I wish I could run OS X on cheaper
Macs. Id
like all the stability, reliability, and power of OS X, but none of
the eye
candy.
Why can't you run OS X on cheaper Macs? As I said, I'm running it on a
B&W G3/300 - slower than your machine - and it runs fine. I expect
when I finally get Tiger on there, Tiger will run even better.
Well, there's always Linux or BeOS.
Daniel
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