I hope so. I did find that Apple done this with Mac OS 7 through to 9. Starting out on Mac OS 7 I found it a similar experience to X (speed wise!) and Apple gradually improved the OS making it faster and more stable.
Bottom line is, if Apple want us to embrace their new OS they need to make...
I have the same problem with my G4/400 mac with much the same specs. I want to use OS X as my main OS but have to keep switching back to OS 9 due to the speed of X. I bought 256mb of RAM to try to improve the situation but it made no difference. What causes the sluggish performance? Video card...