> When I bought my 3000/160 , it had "RamDoubler 8 " and > "SpeedDoudler 8" installed in it. > I've tried both and I don't see any real improvement . > Shouldn't I ?
Good question. I ran both a while back (starting in Mac OS 8.5.1) and I don't recall much change. SpeedDoubler seemed to be a wholly placebo application, but for Windows familiars, its facility to make the menu bar fully keyboard accessible is handy. RAMDoubler did actually seem to be slightly faster than Mac OS VM under low load, but with the heavy loads under which I placed my machine (with only 64 Mb RAM) it wasn't any more efficient at all, maybe worse. When I installed a new hard disc and started over with Mac OS 9.0.4, I found the machine to be very unstable. I was never sure just what was wrong (the OS? SETI? RAMDoubler?) but I reverted to Mac OS VM just to be safe, and have never used RAMDoubler or SpeedDoubler (I think the latter had its own problems) again. I've never missed either, as they don't seem to have ever really been of any use at all. I have, though, just recently purchased 128 Mb of RAM for the machine, and that made a real difference to speed with lots of programs open, as I can now switch between applications with no paging delay. I still have a very slow graphics chip, so screen redraw is horribly slow, and the only cure would be to upgrade the chip to a new video card, but for now, I won't bother. - Daniel. -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> 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/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
