I know I'm just inviting a world of hurt flame-wise, but it just has to be said--OS X is incredibly sluggish.
I have four (4) Macintoshes. There's a Tangerine iBook (266 mz). There's a white 500mz iBook. There's a G4 733mz. And now there's an iMac 17-inch 1GBmz.
Of course you know that these later iMacs can't boot into OS 9. Thus, the iMac, which I just bought, is the only computer running OS X. All the others are on OS 9.
I have nothing against OS X--well, maybe there is the whole password hassle for someone who is the only one using the computer (why can't we have an option to turn off all password requirements? I am not a bank. Nothing is at risk to be compromised on my computer. Why do I need a password for my own property?)
But everything is as slow as molasses on the moon. Launching any app takes at least twice as long as its equivalent in OS 9. Launching MacHelp took so long that I thought the machine had frozen, and I tried to force-quit--to no avail. (I discovered afterwards that having System Preferences open at the same time was the culprit--after I force-quit that, the damned colored spinning wheel disappeared.) I had to force-restart--three times.
I wanted to change my user name. But oh, no--I had to actually create another user to administrate my original username, then delete the second user (all the solutions for this problem I encountered on the Web and Apple TIL described some arcane command-line script to do this. I just used good old OS 9 thinking muscle to do it.) Just hitting the command-F keys seems to wake up a very sleepy FindFile app. Everything seems half-asleep.
I tried to summon the iMac over my local area network from my OS 9 G4 (via Airport) so I could transfer files. But I received the dreaded "have lost connection to this server" screen of death. Apparently to fix this I have to learn Networking 101 or Elementary UNIX Command-line Scripting. That ain't gonna happen. Rebooted the G4 into OS X (it came with OS X pre-installed) and still couldn't establish a network connection from the G4 (it works fine from the iMac).
But what is with this PowerMac Centris speed hit? This computer is 266mz FASTER than my fastest computer, yet it performs at least 266mz SLOWER than my 733.
And I haven't even tried Classic yet *shudder*
I have been a Mac user since 1986--only ever had one Windows machine, which I bought out of curiosity and sold about six months later--and I have never seen a Mac OS actually take a step--maybe several steps--backwards.
I am not a Macintosh neophyte. I have messed around with OS X for more than a year and a half, but have always turned it off in favor of 9--but now I am forced to use it full-time.
Why have I been bombed back to my Mac Plus 512E?
--Nick (hastily donning his firefighter garb)
I have four (4) Macintoshes. There's a Tangerine iBook (266 mz). There's a white 500mz iBook. There's a G4 733mz. And now there's an iMac 17-inch 1GBmz.
Of course you know that these later iMacs can't boot into OS 9. Thus, the iMac, which I just bought, is the only computer running OS X. All the others are on OS 9.
I have nothing against OS X--well, maybe there is the whole password hassle for someone who is the only one using the computer (why can't we have an option to turn off all password requirements? I am not a bank. Nothing is at risk to be compromised on my computer. Why do I need a password for my own property?)
But everything is as slow as molasses on the moon. Launching any app takes at least twice as long as its equivalent in OS 9. Launching MacHelp took so long that I thought the machine had frozen, and I tried to force-quit--to no avail. (I discovered afterwards that having System Preferences open at the same time was the culprit--after I force-quit that, the damned colored spinning wheel disappeared.) I had to force-restart--three times.
I wanted to change my user name. But oh, no--I had to actually create another user to administrate my original username, then delete the second user (all the solutions for this problem I encountered on the Web and Apple TIL described some arcane command-line script to do this. I just used good old OS 9 thinking muscle to do it.) Just hitting the command-F keys seems to wake up a very sleepy FindFile app. Everything seems half-asleep.
I tried to summon the iMac over my local area network from my OS 9 G4 (via Airport) so I could transfer files. But I received the dreaded "have lost connection to this server" screen of death. Apparently to fix this I have to learn Networking 101 or Elementary UNIX Command-line Scripting. That ain't gonna happen. Rebooted the G4 into OS X (it came with OS X pre-installed) and still couldn't establish a network connection from the G4 (it works fine from the iMac).
But what is with this PowerMac Centris speed hit? This computer is 266mz FASTER than my fastest computer, yet it performs at least 266mz SLOWER than my 733.
And I haven't even tried Classic yet *shudder*
I have been a Mac user since 1986--only ever had one Windows machine, which I bought out of curiosity and sold about six months later--and I have never seen a Mac OS actually take a step--maybe several steps--backwards.
I am not a Macintosh neophyte. I have messed around with OS X for more than a year and a half, but have always turned it off in favor of 9--but now I am forced to use it full-time.
Why have I been bombed back to my Mac Plus 512E?
--Nick (hastily donning his firefighter garb)