On Jun 29, 2005, at 8:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Uhh, photoshop ran better on my 180MHz powermac 604 with 2MB VRAM
and 96mb
ram than os x does on my 450mhz g4 with 128mb vram and 896mb ram.
I could go on
and on with examples but ill stop there.
Photoshop *what* ran better, using what size images, how deep was
your color, and what were you doing to the images?
I ran photoshop 7 on my Beige G4/450 running 10.2 and it ran
perfectly fine; certainly better than PS 4 had run on my 7600 with a
225 Mhz CPU.
From your continuing questions about the subject on the list, your
problems likely stem from your SCSI issues.
Dump SCSI.
I know you have a fetish for it, but seriously, dump it.
Get a SATA drive(s) and interface, or a ATA133 drive(s) and card, and
relegate the SCSI stuff to some server box. Or the spare parts box.
Or the swap list or the trash.
Stop focusing on the theoretical throughputs and look at your real-
life performance.
Look in your logs. If you have hardware problems you're going to see
entries associated with them, most likely.
And finally, if you have a g4 that cost you 'several hundred dollars'
here's a hint: Apple doesn't consider you much of a customer. They
get their money from people buying NEW computers and that's who
they're going to support. People hacking G4 motherboards into ATX
cases with cobbled-together SCSI systems just don't come up on their
radar.
There's no financial incentive to trade forward moving improvements
to roll in backwards support for technology they don't officially
support anyways.
Working on their SCSI drivers gains Apple NOTHING at the expense of
whatever those engineers could have been working on instead.
Yes. Computers become obsolescent, life sucks.
But don't try to convince a bunch of people with perfectly fine-
performing systems that it's the OS's fault that YOU have problems,
especially with nonsensical statements like "...photoshop ran better
on my 180MHz powermac 604 ..."
(and before I get the chorus of 'oh but you're a rich academic with a
free latest and greatest any time you want', let me remind you that
my current work system is an upgraded Sawtooth 350 hand-me-down from
one of our professors, and my home system is one of the ones in this
pile:
<http://oscar.pharmacy.arizona.edu/flood/images/thumbs/P1010003-
tb.html> )
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