> Radeon is classic example - yes it improves video performance but not > to a level where 10.2 or higher are (in my opinion) usable in a > seriously normal work flow (flame away).
Depends on what you're using the system for. For software development the slow bus and low performance SCSI on the pre-G3 PCI machines combined with the rather "aggressive" software Apple provides is much more of a bottleneck than the processor... and going to a better disk controller won't help much because it's going to increase the load on the PCI bus! My daughter's Beige G3/300 is much faster, overall, than my 7600+G3/400, just because it's got a better disk controller and a faster bus... even though I've got a Radeon 7000 and she's using the native video. Some programs may be a bit slower, and of course it doesn't do OpenGL, but any time it hits the disk it leaps ahead. On the other hand, I really disagree that Jaguar is any "less usable" on this hardware than 10.1. If anything it's been better than 10.1 ever was, and apart from games it's been much better for me than OS 9 on the same hardware. Yes, it needs more base memory, and the applications are far larger and more disk-intensive, but I was never comfortable with any of the pre-X operating systems: that whole "whoops, the Mighty Apple is doing Something Important, hold on there and let the Mighty Apple work" breakdown you get every time the great multitasking charade gets out of step, or some application decides it's time to grab the whole UI for its Important Dialog Box, just drove me nuts. I was going to post something about "kids today" being spoiled by faster processors and disks and back in the old days we had to drive our 40 MHz Sun Workstations to school, uphill both ways through the snow, but it seems I've been spoiled too... and if it wasn't for XPostFacto making it possible to run OS X on this old frankenputer I think I'd have given up on Apple again. If your applications are bogging down on your pre-G3, then maybe you need a faster box, but don't blame the operating system for the demands of the apps, and if the classic apps give you better performance try running them under Classic. Except for games, I can't see any reason to run anything less than OS X unless you've actually got hardware or driver problems... especially if it's acting as a server where the Quartz Lag doesn't matter. I think I might even use 10.1 over 9.x on a 7x00 with a 604, for server work anyway. Without XPostFacto... I'd be tempted to stick BSD (Darwin, maybe, or one of the traditional BSDs) on it instead, and use CAP for the Appletalk support. -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
