Hate to Admit it. ( X vs 9 )

[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.

[Giaguara]

.. Yea. I hate to read that, I don't like Classic... but could be - never tried really. If I can't do it with *X I want any Linux distro, not Classic..

[MisterMe]

Originally posted 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.

It may very well be that a game designed to run on MacOS 9.x runs faster on that OS than it does on MacOS X under Classic. However, my experience is very different using M$ Office, web browsers, and such like.

Reading graphics-heavy documents created using Office for Windows under MacOS 9 is a pain. Those same documents using Office v.X on MacOS X are a pleasure.

Web browsing ranges from OK to just plain slow on MacOS 9. All my browsers running under MacOS X are quick, with Safari jaw-dropping fast.

The QuickTime Player is quick on both OSes while playing media. However, it loads files and is ready to play much faster under MacOS X.

And we must not forget that you may keep open as many applications as you want while running MacOS X. They all run, they don't crash, and they don't run out of memory.

Are they some applications that run faster under MacOS 9 than they do under MacOS X? Probably. Do I care? No.

[mr. k]

You are running Internet Explorer 4.5? Is that an application that requires classic to run? I know internet explorer 5 was written in carbon and runs natively in OS X, but if 4.5 requires classic to run it will be much faster in 9.2.2 then from classic mode in 10.2.4. Its the same with any other classic application.

[twister]

I actually rebooted into 9.2.2 and was running IE 4.5. Fast as could be. Even the finder seemed more responsve.

But get this. It then wouldn't let me re-boot in to 10! It said my X drive had major errors! And it couldn't fix them. But after a restart or two there it was. As good as can be. So now i'm back in X.

[cq107]

I crashed on X.2.4 install and had to go to 9 for a day or so... Explorer 5.1 at times felt it was way faster... some site loaded very fast... however some were horribly slow... on safari (latest beta) EVERY SITE is fast... good work apple...
another thing, the GUI in 9 seems more responsive, however its not a HUGE diffrence even in my machine...

[toast]

OS9 is generally faster than OSX, for it is simpler than OSX in many ways. For better, for worse.

I still use OS9 a LOT: it is stable (here), it is fast, it can run PS7/Ill.10/Quark 4 and Acrobat Distiller/Reader, plus some Web browser and email client like Netscape, plus ATM/ATR, plus Font Reserve and FlightCheck at times…
… and still work very smoothly

My G3/500 won't let me do that on OSX, although I have considerably upgraded my RAM.

[MacLegacy]

It might change with 10.3

About 10.3 , anyone know where I can find any information (reliable) about it?