Hate to Admit it. ( X vs 9 )

[mr. k]

Its dubbed Panther, but there is really no information I have seen past a rumored release in late summer of this year. I hope its got something incredible in it.

[Sirtovin]

OS X... Rulez... sorry.

[ApeintheShell]

While Mac OS 9 is still a useful operating system development on it has been haulted. Therefore, i think a claim of the overall speed is irrelevant. Just like the windows vs. mac argument. Two different operating systems, two different ways to handle things.

[Stridder44]

Alot of people have noticed that Mac OS X can sometimes be a little bit slower as far as speedyness goes...but come on now, who really needs speed? Oh man! "I HAVE to minimize this window...FASTER!" "I NEED to Navigate thru my hard drive a whole .00001 times faster!" The speed thing may be nice...but OS X is built not for speed...but stability. And stability is what a good OS needs. Im more than sure that Apple will make OS X much more responsive in future updates (not to say that it already isn't). Go Apple!

[Stridder44]

Originally posted by ApeintheShell
While Mac OS 9 is still a useful operating system development on it has been haulted. Therefore, i think a claim of the overall speed is irrelevant. Just like the windows vs. mac argument. Two different operating systems, two different ways to handle things.

This is true

[RacerX]

by twister
I wouldn't give up X for anything, but i restarted in 9.2.2 to play unreal and the OS amazingly fast. I'm running Explorer 4.5 and the web surfing is SO fast also. There is also not much installed in this environment so maybe that helps. So i hate to admit it but this 9.2.2 is MUCH faster than 10.2.4.

Wow, that is soooo funny, I was just having the completely opposite experience. My wife boots our system into 9.2 to play WarCraft so there are times when I get to the computer and it is still running the Classic OS. When trying to use the internet with IE 5.1.6 it seems to take longer to load pages than in Safari (and sometimes would stall for up to a minute for no reason what-so-ever then start working fine again). Plus I miss features like system wide text-to-speech and spell-checking.

Six months ago I would have just left the system in Mac OS 9.2 until I needed one of my Mac OS X apps, today the only time this system is in Mac OS 9.2 is when playing a classic game (and as I have Quake I, II, III, Elite Force, Cro-Mag Rally and Ghost Recon all running in Mac OS X, I don't reboot into 9.2 much anymore).

But, experiences are a personal thing. You should use what makes you, personally, happier. If Mac OS 9.2 does it for you... more power to ya.

[Stridder44]

Originally posted by RacerX
If Mac OS 9.2 does it for you... more power to ya.

Ditto

[twister]

I just thought it seemed faster. I wouldn't switch back though.