Speed?!

[Alex]

Hey everyone-

How is the speed on your machine w/ OS X?

I am running MacOSX on an Indigo iMac DV 400Mgz 192MB... This thing is fast...

I was hearing of Cubes being slow.. Anyone care to post their machines and how slow/fast they are?

Thanks!

[zerorex]

im running on a iBook SE 466 with 192meg of ram, and OS X is very fast. The gui is responsive and classic runs great. The only problem ive had at all is when I tryed to run Dioblo II in OSX through classic(didnt really expect that to go well). However, the Sims works great in classic.

Final thoughts?
OS X KICKS ASS!!!!

[sburrious]

On my beige G3 (300 MHz, 192 MB RAM, original video card, OS X installed on reformatted drive, same partition as OS 9.1), I'm getting mixed results.

Excellent: Audio playback kicks serious heiny. I played a CD in iTunes while doing a ton of other tasks, and the player never missed a beat.

Good: QuickTime playback is much improved over the PB and seems comparable to OS9. I never noticed a problem with menu display in the PB, and I don't with the final either.

Not so good: Window resizing is still slow, even in apps that have transparent resizing, like iTunes. The animations in iTunes and the screen saver are agonzingly slow, but fortunately those are not high priorities for me.

I'm considering upgrading the video card, so I'd be interested in hearing about the experience of other beige G3 owners who have done so. I'd probably go with the latest ATI card, since I'm more interested in 2D than 3D.

[Alex]

Im really, *cough* not sure if I truly like it... Its really cool looking, but- Im not sure if I should of bought it when, still not as many programs in carbon...

I use dreamweaver/fireworks/photoshop mostly all the time when I am on my computer... So Its really slow running on OSX.. So I normaly just use OS9..

I wish Apple allowed the old programs to run on osx a little better.. This poor iMac is running more than it has ever had too...

Its still pretty fast, OSX wise....

Okay now that I have lost what I was trying to say, Bye!

-Alex

[DJ_XTC]

I'm running a G3 B7W 300 (overclocked to 350), with 128 meg of RAM, ATI Rage128 Video Card Adaptec 2940 Dual Channel SCSI card and an additioal Ultra2Wide LVD Cheatah Drive (9gig). Quartz could be faster, window resize dosen't keep up with the mouse. that's my only complaint so far. Classic SCREAMS! it's faster than booting into 9.1. The only thing that classic is lacking is better Multimedia support... Divx and such sometimes just pause, the keep going once OSX gives it some more processing cycles.


Well that's it in a nutshell.


DJ XTC

[billbaloney]

I've been running different versions starting with PB on a PowerBook G3 400 MHz with 192 MB RAM, and performance has been so-so...Classic runs well, starts up about the same speed as a straight OS 9.1 boot (not that I've actually timed it), but the OS X Finder seems really sluggish to me. Window resizing is pretty lame. Something as essential as the System prefs should come up really fast, I feel, but it takes a while.

So far, I'm much happier with the BSD underpinnings than I am with the Finder, uh, overpinnings.

[riven]

I have a PowerBook Pismo and Mac OS X is really running fast. I love the sleep funktion in Mac OS X. 3 sec. to the system wakes up. Lovely...

I have 192 MB ram and i can run Classic, and tons of other apps without slowing down the system.

Thanks Apple for a great product!

- riven

[Batmensch]

Pretty slow; feels quite a bit slower than OS9, actually. I guess the Rage Pro 64 LT cards are not accelerated; glad to hear the Pismo's 128 works better, I am thinking of buying one!
Can't play Oni under X with no OpenGL support. Wavelan card doesn't work. Image capture doesn't seem to like my Casio CV digital camera over USB, and it won't mount the compact flash cards in pcmcia adaptors as drives like MacOS9 and Linux will.
Actually, there's not much reason to use it at the moment, since MacOS is more compatible with my hardware and LinuxPPC is much faster. Just exploring.