Gerald Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, on 8.6 you can still run IE and versions of Mozilla, so browsing > is still okay. Obviously not Safari, though.
The WaMCom Mozilla variant <http://wamcom.org/> runs very well on my Rev c iMac (G3 266MHz, 160MB RAM) running 8.6 without the stability troubles Mozilla has. I also use iCab <http://www.icab.de/> for 95% of my surfing due to it's great interface and preferences. It does crash occasionally and does not work with more complex sites, but it's a great browser. The problem with that is WaMCom looks like a dead end and that just leaves iCab - which is wonderful, but is not yet a full featured modern browser. With OSX I'd have a much larger choice and not be stuck in a technological browser backwater. > As for good mail clients, others can advise better than me. (Mozilla's > mail works well for me, but has no auto-threading in the versions which > can run on 8.6.) > > As an extreme alternative, you could try a different UNIX on your iMac, > such as Yellow Dog. In theory, you can still run Classic and X apps using > the Mac-on-Linux emulator. In practice, I am having some difficulty > persuading this to work as advertised, so I wouldn't recommend this for a > production machine yet. > > GWW That's maybe a tad too extreme for me. I'll dabble in Unix so long as I've a familiar Mac GUI to turn to when my newbie Unix knowledge fails me. Thanks for your reply. Regards, Jamie Kahn Genet > On 5 Apr 2004, at 08:28, Gerald Wilson wrote: > > > On that particular machine, your graphics won't benefit from the > > speed-ups of Quartz Extreme (which offloads a lot of drawing work to the > > GPU - but only if it's the right kind of GPU). Further, your display is > > l > > GWW > > > > On 3 Apr 2004, at 17:28, Peter da Silva wrote: > > > >>> How well would MacOS 10.3 run on my Rev c iMac (the fruit coloured > >>> 266MHz G3, Rage Pro 6MB VRAM model)? Acceptably fast? Much slower > >>> than 8.6 which I currently run? > >> > >> OS X is going to be slower in some ways, faster in others. The big > >> advantage is the ability to reliably run lots of programs concurrently > >> without noticable slowdown, and to keep on working on other things when > >> a program is busy or waiting on disk or network. Some operations are > >> slowed down by the fancier graphics, and interprocess communication is > >> a little slower, but all in all it's more than adequate. -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Message scanned by the Sheriff -- 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
