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Originally posted by theed
I have 2 procassors, and I feel like X runs about 75% the speed of 9 on most tasks, with the gigantic exception that I can do 2 (or more) of thene things at the same time. I do my video capture in 9 (until ATI or Apple lets me do otherwise) but than I run back to X to do my compression and stuff. Although classic is consumed by QT export, my machine is not, and I can do other stuff. Since i have 1 largely free processor, I don't even feel the speed drop of a busy process. It's actually like having 2 computers in 1.
I agree the video can be sluggish, and resizing is a whore. But I can actually do a lot of stuff that I couldn't before without waiting. OS X for me is different, but not worse certainly. It's the best OS I have. I think both the hardware and the users are so used to 9's quirks, that they are waiting on things they don't have to any more. Much of the slowness is not the OS at all. For me, the parallelism more than makes up for the apparent speed drop. |
I'm curious if both of your proccessors are actually working? From what I've read only one proccessor is supported right now, but that might just be for third party cards. My machine is every bit as fast as my Os9 setup for some reason, so I have no complaints. I just read all the forums and do everything that anyone mentions that speeds things up. My video card is not even supported and it's not that slow, seems as fast as Os9 for basic everyday use. I don't do much gaming, but I'm sure I would notice speed problems if I did.