This solution is much easier and better than trying to receive it through e-mail. My Software Update worked fine, and so I did not try the download link for it. However, the link is there for anyone who needs it.
Moogs: I don't know, but what I do know is that my friends noticed QE performance as well. Didn't mean to sound defensive, and I also didn't mean to imply that the 10.2.1 update caused HUGE performance increases. I just meant: Plasma Tunnel was unplayable before the update because of choppiness, and now it's unplayable because it gets me motion sick and I throw up in my mouth.<hr></blockquote>
LOL. Well that is certainly an improvement...sort of...if you don't mind the puke taste.
BRAD: You were right about the Unsanity haxies...going to post something in the other thread we were "debating" in.
OK. And now the moment few if any people have been waiting for!
I have installed Jaguar and begun running the tests as I noted earlier. My initial observations:
Things Jaguar itself improved in a big way but were not significantly *further* improved by 10.2.1 on my machine:
? Finder Actions (window dragging, text searches, etc.)
? iTunes (interface responsiveness, visuals, less susceptibility to the "shaken window test" due to QE)
? General system responsiveness
? Browsing in IE is noticeably faster (more like Mozilla was on 10.1.5)...haven't tried any other browsers yet.
Things that 10.2.1 mildly improved over Jaguar alone:
? App launch times (most Adobe apps launch on the order of 2-3 seconds faster, files and dialogs open slightly quicker)
? ??
Things that actually seemed to get worse:
? Boot times (which never showed the massive improvement some people talked about to start with). Jaguar was about the same as 10.1.5, 10.2.1 is about 5 or 10 seconds slower it seems. Maybe I need to bre-bind again or something....
? There seems to be a bug with the System Prefs whereby one of the rows gets "double-decked" and all of a sudden there's a scroll bar on the right (?!). This seems to happen when changing resolutions too.
More later....so far not hugely impressed with QE. Could be the fact I'm using a Radeon Mac Edition. But still the difference should be more noticeable somewhere other than iTunes. Maybe Photoshop?
>>Returns Later that Night<<
OK, my only other observation to this point is that the relative speed difference between browsers still exists. After running Mozilla 1.1 on 10.2.1, it is definitely faster than IE 5.2.1 under the same system. So the browser improvements go across the board, not just for IE it seems like.
Also, Booting is still damn slow 1 minute 20 seconds last time I tried it. That's almost 30 seconds slower than 10.1.5 - and almost all of it is the new Gray Apple Screen, not the progress bar thing as before....
That said, there are a bunch of cool little improvements scattered all over the system (bug fixes among them) that no one ever mentions, so I've had some pleasant surprises.
That's all for a while. Have a lot of tweaking to do still.
It doesn't seem a lot faster than 10.2 ( which was fast ) but it seems more solid. I've even checked it with the Norton CD and optimized it. No problems. 1 min booting time. G4 450 / 1024 MB of RAM / Radeon Mac edition.
Everything seems to be working as its supposed to except boot times. I've tried a number of tricks since my last post and nothing helps...going to post in the 10.2.1 problems thread.
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This solution is much easier and better than trying to receive it through e-mail. My Software Update worked fine, and so I did not try the download link for it. However, the link is there for anyone who needs it.
Moogs: I don't know, but what I do know is that my friends noticed QE performance as well. Didn't mean to sound defensive, and I also didn't mean to imply that the 10.2.1 update caused HUGE performance increases. I just meant: Plasma Tunnel was unplayable before the update because of choppiness, and now it's unplayable because it gets me motion sick and I throw up in my mouth.<hr></blockquote>
LOL. Well that is certainly an improvement...sort of...if you don't mind the puke taste.
BRAD: You were right about the Unsanity haxies...going to post something in the other thread we were "debating" in.
I have installed Jaguar and begun running the tests as I noted earlier. My initial observations:
Things Jaguar itself improved in a big way but were not significantly *further* improved by 10.2.1 on my machine:
? Finder Actions (window dragging, text searches, etc.)
? iTunes (interface responsiveness, visuals, less susceptibility to the "shaken window test" due to QE)
? General system responsiveness
? Browsing in IE is noticeably faster (more like Mozilla was on 10.1.5)...haven't tried any other browsers yet.
Things that 10.2.1 mildly improved over Jaguar alone:
? App launch times (most Adobe apps launch on the order of 2-3 seconds faster, files and dialogs open slightly quicker)
? ??
Things that actually seemed to get worse:
? Boot times (which never showed the massive improvement some people talked about to start with). Jaguar was about the same as 10.1.5, 10.2.1 is about 5 or 10 seconds slower it seems. Maybe I need to bre-bind again or something....
? There seems to be a bug with the System Prefs whereby one of the rows gets "double-decked" and all of a sudden there's a scroll bar on the right (?!). This seems to happen when changing resolutions too.
More later....so far not hugely impressed with QE. Could be the fact I'm using a Radeon Mac Edition. But still the difference should be more noticeable somewhere other than iTunes. Maybe Photoshop?
>>Returns Later that Night<<
OK, my only other observation to this point is that the relative speed difference between browsers still exists. After running Mozilla 1.1 on 10.2.1, it is definitely faster than IE 5.2.1 under the same system. So the browser improvements go across the board, not just for IE it seems like.
Also, Booting is still damn slow 1 minute 20 seconds last time I tried it. That's almost 30 seconds slower than 10.1.5 - and almost all of it is the new Gray Apple Screen, not the progress bar thing as before....
That said, there are a bunch of cool little improvements scattered all over the system (bug fixes among them) that no one ever mentions, so I've had some pleasant surprises.
That's all for a while. Have a lot of tweaking to do still.
[ 09-21-2002: Message edited by: Moogs ]</p>
It doesn't seem a lot faster than 10.2 ( which was fast ) but it seems more solid. I've even checked it with the Norton CD and optimized it. No problems. 1 min booting time. G4 450 / 1024 MB of RAM / Radeon Mac edition.
[ 09-21-2002: Message edited by: jimmac ]</p>