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So I've noticed that OS X, while it does do a great job of dynamically allocating RAM, isn't using my RAM to its full potential. A perfect example would be the fact that usually I have over half of my physical RAM completely unused (I have a GB) yet the OS is still thrashing my hard disk with...

How do I do this in X? I know it'd have to be some unix-y thing, I'm just not sure what that unix-y thing is.

I've got a gig of ram in my B&W G3 ... I've also got a great little app called Memory Monitor that sits in the dock and gives a nice little visual representation of your ram usage. I also religously use the top command in terminal, and keep it running hidden so i can check up whenever i want...

These specs blew me away. All along people have been saying how OS X wasn't going to be good for musician-types. http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/audio.html A sampling: "Mac OS X integrates MIDI Services into the operating system as well." hehehehehehe

It shows up in the X ASP with the other drives connected to the Mac, even lists the correct vendor and product. Which is interesting that it can parse the data about the drive but not control the drive itself. And if you can't get that Teac working with Toast under 9, you have issues that...

weirdness guys, weirdness: i'm using a G4 450 with a Teac CR-R565 connected to an Adaptec 2903 SCSI card. yesterday i download the Toast beta 2 for X. Load it up. Burn 2 discs flawlessly while running InDesign in Classic, iTunes visualizing in the BG, plus about 10 other random apps open...

I think we should all chip in and buy Ryan Rempel a Dual 800 Quicksilver. To that end, everyone send me $100 *evil grin*. Awesome. As soon as I get a cheap external HD for storage, I'm putting 10.1 on that 8600 - I wonder if it will support the built-in A/V capabilities, as the card that...

Wow, Britney, nice to see someone who has some chutzpah trying 10.1 out ... the only thing that has stopped me thus far is that I need a larger internal or an external HD to make room for the OS and all my apps ... BUT - How did you do the install? Did you first install 10.0–0.4 then update...

Has anyone had any experience with 10.1 on legacy macs? I heard that it wouldn't run on these machines ... I have an 8600 that I would LOVE to upgrade to 10.1 (after I get a larger HD) without having to get a G3 or G4 in there first. I ran 10.0.4 with mixed results, but wound up taking it off...

The GM image is 626MB and change. Does anyone have a hack to get the DVD Player app working on B&W G3's? I'm SUPER SUPER MAD about not being able to use my APPLE SUPPLIED DVD HARDWARE under X.

Unfortunately, this is something that broke under 9.1 and hasn't been resolved – in any Mac OS until 9.1, you could reformat a Zip as a PC format, if not with the Special:Erase Disk command, then with Tools. For some reason, this functionality has been completely disabled. I can't figure out...

Well, there is a way to defrag your drive - pick up the latest version of Norton Utilities. Its compatible with OS X and won't destroy your X install, like previous versions of Norton did to me (on 2 occasions before I realized what had happened). BTW, defragging REALLY helps OS X performance...

Thanks for joining the Mac community! Hope you find it to be as welcoming and pleasant as I have :) As far as installing OS X on a 604e, its possible, but on your machine, I wouldn't recommend it. I had X installed on an 8600/300 w/ 256MB of RAM, and it was, shall we say, SLOW. It was...

and i don't have much to add to the actual value of this conversation, i will say that i tried running 10.0.4 on an unaccellerated 8600/300 (the high end model!) with 128MB of RAM, 4 MB VRAM, and um, well... it was usable to a point. :) I wouldn't say it crawled, and I just added another 128 of...

it helps - it helps A LOT. But i didn't really notice to insane of a performance boost in X, other than being able to have almost all of my relevant apps open at once without an problems whatsoever. OS 9 however, LOVES this new ram - the memory control panel tells me that I have TOO MUCH RAM...

As of tomorrow, i'll be upgrading my B&W G3 from 384MB of RAM to a full 1GB. We'll see how fast OS X can chomp down a GB of memory. Any other users with maxed out RAM find that it helped immensely or what? I've never worked on a computer with anything higher than this one with 384, so I can't...