[SunRescue] G3 upgrade for PowerMac 7300

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:36:56AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Booger McGee <ed at the7thbeer.com> wrote:
> 
> > It could be worse....try running OS X on a 300Mhz Beige G3....this thing 
> > is slower than System 7 on an SE....
> 
> I'm running OS X on a 600MHz imac here, and it's pretty painful.  I'm not
> sure where the problem lies.  Sure, Aqua is slow without graphics
> acceleration, but it seems to be more than that.  Even when all I'm running
> is itunes, the seti at home client, and IE, it can take an age to switch
> between apps, and scrolling in both IE and the Finder is pitiful.  Under
> a similar sort of application load on my Linux/x86 laptop - a few Netscape
> windows, mpg123, nautilus - which has the same amount of memory and also
> has a 600MHz CPU (so according to apple's propaganda the imac should piss
> all over it) it is *much* more responsive.

First question:  how much RAM do you have?

Second question:  what color depth (bit depth) are you running at?

Third question:  what kind of RAM do you have?  There is 2-2-2, 3-2-2 and
3-3-3 .  Speed difference between 222 and 333 is substantial.

> I'm really not impressed by OS X.  It was released too early and too
> incomplete.  It is lacking support for graphics accelerators and for CD
> writers, too of the most important things about the current range of Macs.

Wait and see.

Have you tried the point and click port scanner yet?

Cordially

Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net