> 2.) Besides software compatiablity, why have ya'll choosen to switch?
The difference between OS 9 and OS X is bigger than the difference between MS-DOS and its contemporary Mac OS. It's like going from a motorcycle with a sidecar and panniers held on with duct tape to a family sedan. It's like going from renting an apartment to owning a house, from a small town to a big city, from school to a career. The higher quality graphics subsystem means you need a better video card and a lot more memory to get comparable performance, but at the same time you quit having to wait for programs to load, open files, open windows, repaint and refresh windows, perform calculations, save files. Instead of having one program that's *really* running that locks up the GUI when it's too busy to bother with its background peers, everything is really running at once, and it just works. I started with a 604e/180 with 96M and OS X 10.1, and it was slow as hell to set up and manage windows, those huge bitmaps meant it was swapping all the time and rendering a PDF-quality window was slow, but response time to actions that weren't limited by memory or the CPU... dragging and moving windows, navigating menus once rendered... was better than on OS 9 on the same box. With enough memory and an OpenGL-capable video card, it's fine. > 3.) Any downfalls that you see that you would warrent as fairly major > drawbacks? You really really want to max out your RAM, you'll want at least 4G of disk dedicated to doing system stuff, and if you don't already have at least a Rage 128 you'll want to get one. -- 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
