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To: Doren who wrote (34896)	9/10/2002 6:25:55 PM
From: jonkai	Respond to of 213182

I meant that when he runs OSX the desktop latency is way slow, every thing happens after a delay he's doing something wrong then, or he doesn't have enough memory or he is using an older version of OSX....... OSX.2 is not slower than OS9, it just is not.... i suspect that he doesn't have a newer copy of OSX or he doesn't have enough memory.... or video memory, or a proper video card, or L3 memory, or some such thing... Memory is critical, without it, power applications (or pro apps) will not run correctly.... the whole machine will slow down.... but there could also be something else wrong.... i suspect that he is trying to drive a video LCD with too low a memory, and OSX requires a lot to render the screen, since the screen looks so nice in OSX, it is using a ton of memory and CPU and VIDEO card speed... i use both systems, and there is no difference between opening apps, (if you don't count that OSX.2 loads faster turning on the machine, and runs most apps faster, including actually opening native apps faster.... and generally does everything faster, even with all this overhead of screen graphics) this is all on the same machine..... i boot regularly in OS9 and OSX.... another thing that might be going on, is he could be running OS9 apps on OSX, these will be slower than running them natively on OS9...... but one things for sure, my experience is exactly opposite than his, something is amiss.... read these links, they also are saying the same thing..... so if i were you, id get out and do some tests in an apple store, restart in both OS's and find out what your friends machine has that is making it not work right.... here is a test that doen't use the screen as much..... this test was done before the massive improvement in 10.2.... http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=3269 The researchers found that OSX offered the best latency speed of all operating systems and platforms when running multiple applications here's a report nytimes.com But especially for people with older Macs, speed is the only one they really care about, and Mac OS X has it in spades. It's generally as fast as Mac OS 9 was, and often faster. another test would be to go to Apple's web site, and watch a movie trailer..... OSX does a much faster job of using Quicktime, on the same bandwidth, (course i have 1.5 megs bandwidth) but it is the same bandwidth for OS9, and OS9 chokes quicker..... on the same amount of memory..... here is another article... It’s Far Faster First and foremost, everything from Web browsing to window redraws happens faster. The system simply seems snappier all around — it has lost the lazy feeling that earlier versions of OS X had, especially when compared with OS 9. While Web browsing still isn’t quite as fast as with OS 9, on a strictly anecdotal basis, it’s far faster than it was, to the point where speed is no longer an issue. Fonts also seem to display better, making for clearer, sharper graphics, especially on my PowerBook’s LCD screen (the same would hold true for iMac screens, of course). Second in importance to me is the ease of networking. Here’s what it took to log on to my company’s Windows-based network. I plugged one end of an Ethernet cord into my PowerBook, the other end into an Ethernet outlet, and cranked up my browser. Done. No settings changes required. After many years of experience with the voodoo that is Windows networking, that, to my mind, is a miracle. — Philip Ben-David, NewsFactor Network