Friday, July 19, 2002

I booted MacOS 9 to scan & fax my time sheet (neither FaxSTF X or Cocoa eFax work reliably, so I still boot 9 to send faxes) and while I was in 9 I decided to do some web browsing. I fired up Netscape 4.7 and I was blown away by the speed. I never realized how much faster 9 is, or just how slow most stuff is in X until I actually ran 9 for a while. I have a G4/500AGP minitower with 768M of RAM (although I also run X on my iBook/500, which feels painfully slow sometimes). X is passable but no speed demon on this machine. I wouldn't want to run it on anything slower. 6:16:39 PM    Comments []