Well I am glad others have had a better experience. My point was Simply that on any computer platform good benchmarks does not always mean an improvement of real world performance. Sent on the TELUS Mobility network with BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: "James E. Therrault" <mjrtas...@gmail.com> Sender: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:00:39 To: <g3-5-list@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: OT OT OT need a reason ? On Mar 22, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Mar 21, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote: > >> But truth be told they have >> found they are much more impressed with the old G4s because unlike the >> new faster Intel macs the G4s are actually consistently reliable. >> Their Intel Macs are consistently crashing or malfunctioning in some >> other way. > > This is directly contrary to my experience managing a college with about > 100-120 Macs in use, all but a handful of which are Intel macs of one form or > another; none 'consistently crash'. > > Of course there are occasional issues, but most of those have been fixed by > either starting in safe mode (to clear the caches) using Applejack (once per > machine so far, not as a routine maintenance) or most often, just getting > enough RAM in the systems. (people trying to run a bunch of Mac apps plus > Windows in a VM need more than 2GB ram, or the system slows to a crawl on a > regular basis.) It's been about two months since I switched from my trusty ol' Gigabit G4 to a late '09 Mac Mini. The previous owner had wiped the HD and reinstalled the original system s/w which was an early version of Snow Leopard and then upgraded it to the current 10.6.6. For about the first month, I did experience strange things like application crashes, sleep issues etc but now it seems as if the machine "has learned" my habits. It is now rock steady, runs 24/7 (much of it in sleep mode) without any problems. Safari which always gave me fits on the G4 is now amazing. Other apps as well and I am running Rosetta (sp?) for an older game, Mah Jong and it works just fine. Moving across a ten year technology "bridge" has been quite an impressive journey! Wow! JT -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
