At 1:01 PM -0400 10/17/01, Sandy McMurray wrote: > > Is it just me, or are you disappointed with OS X's speed? I am running >> X.1 >> on a G4/450 with 1GB of RAM. > >I just upgraded to 10.1 from 10.0.4 and I'm enjoying the speed INCREASE. >I know it's still slower than OS9 at its speediest, but when you include >freezes in OS9, when one application takes over the entire machine, I >think 10.1 is doing pretty well. > >That's not to say there's no room for improvement. The big memory hog >seems to be window drawing/redrawing. Major hunks of memory are being >used to keep track of where each pretty pixel and dropshadow are, so >they will look nice when I (slowly) move one window around the screen. > >I expect two things will speed up OS X: > - future improvements to memory management and Quartz rendering > - ever-faster and more powerful hardware > >I guess we'll see.
Assuming for a minute that the OS isn't going to change (not a valid assumption, but I do it all the time), is the bottle neck in the video card or the CPU or the system bus or where? Regards James ___________________________________________________________ James Sedgwick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sedgwick & Son http://homepage.mac.com/jsedgwick/ Information System Specialists and proud Canadians -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> 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/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
