all this talk about Tibook next week, but where's the IBOOK?

[alex_ant]

Originally posted by matznentosh

Listen, I think there is something amiss about perceptions of OS X speed. Some will say it is dead slow, some say faster than ever. I have a Pismo 400, and it runs great. Remember this is a G3, everybody complains it is so slow. The finder is only slightly slower than OS 9. Also, I never realized how inconvenient bombs were on my desktop (still OS 9) or my PC at work are till I started using OS X. Its plenty fast on a G3. I would suggest if you are having slowdowns, to erase the disk and reinstall the operating system. You may be surprised how usable it is, even on older processors.

Well, yeah, if all you're using is the Finder, then of course OS X is just as fast as OS 9. All these people moving to OS X from OS 9 are coming from a world where it is unsafe to have any more than two programs open at once. They say OS X is fast because they're not multitasking, because they're not used to multitasking and afraid of it. I'm coming from a world where preemptive multitasking and protected memory have been the norm since the 1970s. My Linux machine was regularly getting hammered with 20+ hungry processes running at once. It was of similar speed (K6-2 550MHz - don't remember whether or not I mentioned that), with the same amount of memory, but it just felt FAR faster and more responsive. Granted, it had 7200rpm UW-SCSI drives, compared to this notebook's 4200rpm IDE drive, but other than that, they should have been close to even. I guess I'm just going to have to get used to this thing's speed, because I know I won't have it paid off until the G6 comes out in 2010.

Alex

 

[sparkleytone]

well i guess my standards of operation are too low. im only surfing the net with multiple windows, listening to itunes, im'ing people, and building the mozilla tree on an avg day.

 

[Biggles]

I'm running an old iMac at 400mhz, 384 RAM, and OSX.....and it works fairly good for what i need it for. I tend to have about 6-7 apps open at once (AIM, Mozilla, iTunes, Mail, Word, Quickkeys, Sherlock) and althought it's not a speed demon, it runs without much of a problem. I figure an iBook with even better specs than my iMac would run at a pleasant speed. But if you can wait, hold out for July and see if Apple upgrades the iBook (theyre due for a speedbump or somthing).

 

[cloudsuper]

schmoo

SCHMOOOOOOOO.

eh, AIM is slow, cause it uses java. Why do I think this? it makes the same sound as the Java client when you're logging in. 'Oh, but dont they all do that?' and to that I say , no they don't. er..yeah. Anyway, Java slows down computers very quickly. AIM and Limewire are two applications that can bring down a system VERY quickly. I think IE does to an extent too, but no browser has Adiums speed and probably never will. Chimera and Omniweb are pretty close though, and Mozilla even renders quickly now. IE isn't using cocoa native, you can tell 'cause its using its own skin engine instead of Cocoas. Anyway, I think your system will be alot faster if you use a Finder-Adium-Omniweb combination instead of IE+Official AIM...Official AIM is just slow...I find that closing it raises my framerates by almost double in Quake 3 and Snes9x, by by.

 

[cloudsuper]

schmoooo, Office X is pretty slow too. Such is the problem with rushed ports that weren't optimized to their native environment. AIM, Limewire, alot of programs use Java to port to OSes for lazy programmers.