Larrie,
> Am thinking about switching from OS 9.2 to X.2 on my PowerBook Wall Street
> G3/400. My main concern is speed of operation. Has anyone on the list made
> the switch using the same PowerBook? Can anyone recommend a site that shows
> speed of operation on different Mac models?
My PB G3 250MHz WallStreet with OS 9.1 is about 2-3 times faster than any G3
running Jaguar and about the same speed as a G4 Cube. At our recent Newton
meeting one of us was using Jaguar on a WallStreet and it was very slow with
192MB of RAM - I would consider it unacceptable for serious work.
I know a network of 400MHz iMacs running Jaguar and it's like computing
under water compared to OS 8/9 - menus draw slowly and all operations are
very disk intensive.
To return to the responsiveness of 8/9 you need a G4 with 1GHz cpu and 1GB
of RAM, then performance is (mostly) great.
Joel.
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