Re: Thoughts on OS X

[Danny De Vylder]

Hi,

On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 01:18 Europe/Brussels, Michael Shaw wrote:

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 03:47  PM, JW Holmes wrote:

Greetings all,

I currently own a PM 9600 with a Sonnet G3 500 and 640MB RAM, ATI Rage
Pro Video 128 Card, two 9 GB IBM UW SCSI drives on an ATTO SCSI card, 
and
the standard 4 GB drive on the internal SCSI bus.  I currently run OS
9.2.2 and I would appreciate any feedback about  several issues 
related
to moving to 10.2.2:

1. Is this machine adequate for OS 10.2 ), and will it give me
performance comparable to what I have with OS 9.2.2?
I would say absolutely yes.
Your first impression might say NO, but speed is very relative.
Going back to OS 9, now and then, feels snappier.
But OS X will handle a lot of things at the same time, with always 
resources available for you, the user.

2. I am currently a subscriber to the Xpostfacto tech forum and I do 
read
the post relative to my machine. There does appear to be some issues 
that
you have to live with such as no sound control for external speakers.
Eh ??? No wonder my CDs won't play with iTunes....


4. I have an apple laserwriter select 360, will I lose the use of this
printer in 10.2?
I can't figure out how to find my LaserWriter Select 360 under OS 
either.
 Has anyone been able to do this ???
LaserWriter Select 360 is perfectly supported.
You just have to enable AppleTalk in the System Preferences / Network
Your printer has to be connected to your Ethernet Network of course.


6. Is OS 10.2 more or less reliable than 9.2.2 on these ( 9600) 
machines?
Rock solid. No crashes, no freezes, no problems.
7. Are there any gotcha issues that I show be aware of for converting 
to 10.2?
You will love it.
I agree !

Thanks
JW



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