10.1.3 finder vs. 9.2.2 (speed)

[divibisan]

Personally, on my computer OSX is faster than OS9 but my computer may just be screwed up (Nine goes really slow for some reason)

But anyway, I agree that most of the speed loss is from the eye candy, it would help greatly for people with slower computers if there were more ways to disable it (ie. no transparencies)

[Bluefusion]

Same here. On my LCD iMac OS 9 is quite slow for most things (not painfully slow, but certainly it takes longer to do most things than in OS X)...file copies, in particular, are excruciatingly slow, as are the mounting and unmounting of disks. With OS X I'm used to pushing the eject key and having the disk pop out IMMEDIATELY-- with OS 9 it always takes a few seconds unless there's absolutely nothing else going on (ie. you just finished starting up and you're sitting there looking at the desktop... then ejecting is fast; otherwise it's really not.