Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-05 Thread Benjamin Corrow
what is BTW in regard to the 7100? On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 04:38 PM, Phil Beesley wrote: On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 08:30 PM, Ted Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After connecting both my Centris 650 and 7100/80 to DSL by ethernet, the Centris seems to load web pages faster.

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Benjamin Corrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is BTW in regard to the 7100? BTW= By the way... = Subatomic conspiracy group: The Free Mesons. Yes, they do drink Lepton Tea. At the Absolute Zero Lounge they drink iced Lepton Tea. They've even been to Dr. Strange's Charm School.

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-05 Thread Ted Parks
Thanks for the responses, which were very helpful. The 7100 is running System 7.5, the C650, OS 8.1. I think part of the problem might also be that I was running a 68K version of iCab on the 7100 because its OS wouldn't allow the PPC version of iCab. I think my first upgrade will be RAM for the

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-05 Thread R. A. Cantrell
on 2/5/03 10:03 AM, Ted Parks at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was not sure of the parameters of this list, especially because of Apple's ever-widening definition of vintage. Again, I really appreciate the responses and felt they helped me understand my favorite Mac right now, the 68040 C650 on

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-05 Thread Robyn Lyons
In this case, vintage is referring to 68030 and lower machines. '040 processors have their own little spot with the Quadlist. -Robyn On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 10:03 AM, Ted Parks wrote: I was not sure of the parameters of this list, especially because of Apple's ever-widening

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-05 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ted Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the responses, which were very helpful. The 7100 is running System 7.5, the C650, OS 8.1. I think part of the problem might also be that I was running a 68K version of iCab on the 7100 because its OS wouldn't allow the PPC version of iCab.

C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-04 Thread Ted Parks
After connecting both my Centris 650 and 7100/80 to DSL by ethernet, the Centris seems to load web pages faster. The 7100/80 has only 16 megs of RAM, while the Centris has about a 100. Also, the 7100 is connected to ethernet through a transceiver. My questions: 1) How much difference does the

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-04 Thread Phil Beesley
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 08:30 PM, Ted Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After connecting both my Centris 650 and 7100/80 to DSL by ethernet, the Centris seems to load web pages faster. The 7100/80 has only 16 megs of RAM, while the Centris has about a 100. Also, the 7100 is

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-04 Thread the pickle
At 10:22 -0800 on 04/02/03, Ted Parks wrote: After connecting both my Centris 650 and 7100/80 to DSL by ethernet, the Centris seems to load web pages faster. The 7100/80 has only 16 megs of RAM, Are they using identical browsers with identical RAM allotments? What OS are they running? 1) How

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-04 Thread Robyn Lyons
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 12:22 PM, Ted Parks wrote: My questions: 1) How much difference does the amount of RAM make in how quickly a machine loads web pages, in particular, and how fast it runs other common applications, in general? If both the Centris and the 7100/80 had equal

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-04 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Ted Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After connecting both my Centris 650 and 7100/80 to DSL by ethernet, the Centris seems to load web pages faster. The 7100/80 has only 16 megs of RAM, while the Centris has about a 100. Also, the 7100 is connected to ethernet through a transceiver.

Re: C650 or 7100/80?

2003-02-04 Thread Dustin Rinebold
My questions: 1) How much difference does the amount of RAM make in how quickly a machine loads web pages, in particular, and how fast it runs other common applications, in general? If both the Centris and the 7100/80 had equal RAM, would the 7100 be noticeably faster? Everyone else has