I don't see 10.2 taking better use of the graphics card as making your older graphics card obsolete. Yes, newer hardware will see fuller use of the graphics chips for greater UI quality- but thats not "obsoleting" the older hardware- the OS works fine on older hardware (it also runs fine on my PowerMac 9500 from, what, 1996?) And when it is, ALL titanium powerbooks, even my first generation one, are going to be supported. I run Warcraft 3 on an iMac G4 at 1024x768 with all graphics options turned on and it runs great.ġ0.2 HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED. You can't say shit like this without being called on it. Hell, they've already obsolesced my _NEW_ powerbook with their new os x 10.2 release. Obviously, some people like OS X and think it is really neat, but for me it just gets in the way and i'm hanging out for a viable alternative to it. One day, Adobe will port Photoshop to UNIX, or someone else will step up to the plate with a decent Linux image editor, and my days running OS X will be over. My TiBook is pretty much an expensive X-Terminal that continues to run an Apple OS only to support Photoshop. Even with TinkerTool, you can't disable all the eye-candy, and even when you do turn everything TinkerTool controls off, the GUI isn't much faster. What is really frustrating is that you can't turn the extraneous shit off. Things happen in 'realtime' instead of at some point in the future after the annoying 'animation effect' has run. Maybe it's just a pointless, overengineered GUI layer, but it still feels damn slow watching that little spinning beachball spin all the time.įire up OS 9.2 on the same machine and the speed difference is amazing. Shit, my IIfx running AU/X offers the same level of integration between MacOS and UNIX as OS/X, Apple have been sitting round with their thumb up their ass for the last ten or fifteen years. well, you must enjoy your web browsers not being able to scroll smoothly and waiting minutes for apps to start up, but i sure don't. I hear people say they find performance acceptable on these machines. A 600Mhz G3 Ibook is a joke (granted this was the 'from the factory' config, so more RAM would be necessary). I have a G4 TiBook and also used a 700Mhz G4 Tower, and neither of these machines provided acceptable GUI speed for me. On anything but a top-of-the-line G4 machine, OS X is sluggish. MOL runs OS 9.2 directly on the hardware, using the PPC's virtualisation features, something the x86 lacks completely, i believe, so PPC apps that do not rely on proprietary Apple hardware (not OS X, obviously) will run at full-speed in the MOL environment, unlike x86-oriented solutions like VMware, where the software has to jump through hoops to give the hosted apps access to the CPU.Īnd, don't kid yourself. Apple ROMs for a long time, probably since 8.x First up, MacOS hasn't needed any Apple hardware i.e.
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