667 Ti X VS 400 iMac 9 :-/

paulpaul
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
OK I have been using a stock 667 DVI Ti (256 10.2.4) since school started...and right now I am on my old 400 Indigo iMac with 512 Ram and 9.2.2



and snappyness is NIGHT and DAY on the intenet especially. the iMac SMOKES the Ti... WTF!!!



but the really sad thing is.... I can NEVER go back to 9.... between the qwerty keyboard and ingrained habits from X.... I am rediculously slow on the iMac... I Miss SO many things about X, integrated spellcheck, the dock, menubar items..... and aqua especially.... 9 is just...so...UGLY



but 9 is FAST <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> now I know i need more ram on the Ti.... but the difference in speed on a machine 2 years older and half the price is beyond rediculous....



I am so much more productive on X...but at what cost?



sigh.... this is depressing &lt;/rant&gt;





***speed as it relates to the interface....

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    Yeah, before you complain about speed I'd get more RAM.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    fobiefobie Posts: 216member
    384MB RAM is a minimun when it comes to using Mac OS X. Get at least 512MB and your Ti should get new powers. Still, OS9 is snappier than OSX on most machines. Not much to do about that.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    rodukroduk Posts: 706member
    [quote]Originally posted by EmAn:

    <strong>Yeah, before you complain about speed I'd get more RAM.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Especially on a laptop with their slow hard drives. If it's paging to and from the hard disk, it will be slow.



    [ 03-03-2003: Message edited by: RodUK ]</p>
  • Reply 4 of 5
    fred_ljfred_lj Posts: 607member
    Yeah, I run an 867 TiBook w/ 768 MB RAM -- it is very quick about most things, but still - my old Pismo 400 doesn't seem much slower.



    BTW, I've been reading so much about these "Page-ins" -- how do actually quantitatively measure them? I'm not a performance freak, so I haven't investigated it further until now.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    rodukroduk Posts: 706member
    [quote]Originally posted by fred_lj:

    <strong>

    BTW, I've been reading so much about these "Page-ins" -- how do actually quantitatively measure them? I'm not a performance freak, so I haven't investigated it further until now.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    You can open a terminal window and type the command top to see the number of page ins and outs.
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