>My Opinion on my iMac G3 is when I use 10.2.8, it is slower than nine on >iMacs
I would have to agree with that. I have a 400 MHz G3 iMac running 10.3.9 right now... and it can be PAINFULLY slow at times. However, I've carefully watched it, and I've found that the actual "work" is much faster than under 9... what appears to be slow is certain functions. Displaying the contents of a folder (god forbid you have more then a few hundred items in a folder, and try to sort it by anything other than Name, and then try to move anything in or out of the window... I've often had to force quit the Finder after waiting 20 minutes for control to return to me). Control Clicking at times is VERY slow (again, usually when a large number of items are in a folder). But I think that may all just be Finder issues... do the same operations from the command line, and they fly. I can move 5000 JPEGs from one folder to another via Command Line in just a few seconds... it may take 30 or more to open the folder in the Finder, and another 15+ to drag the contents, and another 30-60 to actually get them to move. All in all, the Finder may take 2+ minutes to do what I can do with the CLI in a matter of seconds. The speed isn't as bad in the Finder as long as the folder is kept sorted by name (but it still is far slower then the CLI). So OS X is not at fault per se, just portions of OS X (at least in my experience). And then there is web browsing... that is just painful. I've all but given up using my Mac for that, and I move to my Win XP machine when I need to do anything serious on the web. Safari spends more time spinning the beach ball then anything else (and Firefox isn't too much better). In all of the above cases, I do not see the same speed problems with OS 9 (Finder works plenty fast, even with 5000+ items in a Folder... although OS 9 can't come close to the speed OS X's CLI can do it), and web use with iCab and Mozilla show no serious speed issues under OS 9 (although I do tend to still use my PC instead of my OS 9 machine at work for the web, but that is more a compatibility issue. Firefox and IE on Win2k is just more compatible then iCab or Mozilla on OS 9... things show up more often the way the designed planned). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
