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  • [quote]Originally posted by catalyst: It's not just the genie effect that slows down the whole OS. Perhaps they won't use Quartz for rendering every single pixel, or maybe they will use a light-weight version. If they come out with a lightweigh…
    in Embedded MacOS X Comment by kestral January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by Bogie: So now someone with the name Applenut is bashing Mac users by saying that my thoughts on usable and fast are skewed, eh? I won't respond beyond that. Oh and on my Pismo 400 with 320MB Office v.X is faster th…
    in Mac OS X on different hardware Comment by kestral December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by EmAn: Yeah, I've used Office X on my iBook. It's not the fastest but I think the speed is acceptable. [ 12-30-2001: Message edited by: EmAn ] My benchmark for it's acceptability is this: I can type faster than …
    in Mac OS X on different hardware Comment by kestral December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by EmAn: Yeah, I know OS 9 is faster than X. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that my iBook is fully usable in OS X. I don't have any problems or complaints about the speed, but in a lot of things OS 9 is still fa…
    in Mac OS X on different hardware Comment by kestral December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by EmAn: My iBook (500MHz with 384MB RAM) is fully usable with 10.1.2. Even the Genie Effect is very smooth. Hmm... I thought all the Apple apologists were on MacNN. Try booting to OS9 on your machine and see the dramat…
    in Mac OS X on different hardware Comment by kestral December 2001
  • See below for my machine specs. I agree with the above chart.
    in Mac OS X on different hardware Comment by kestral December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by Jonathan: what sort of radical advancements do you speak of? examples? Better handling of metadata for one. In this aspect, they could really learn something from BeOS. But even better would be an SQL-based f…
    in OSX. Where has the AI spirit gone? Comment by kestral December 2001
  • Hi SYN, Well, as far as short-comings go, I think that even if there are native OS X apps, the problem is the quality of those said applications. At this point, it seems like developers are just making the minimal modifications necessary to ju…
    in OSX. Where has the AI spirit gone? Comment by kestral December 2001
  • Ahhhh SYN, you want to confer with the Apple Apolgists. For that you'll have to go here:
    in OSX. Where has the AI spirit gone? Comment by kestral December 2001
  • I'd be interested in knowing this too. Ahh this brings back memories, when I was a kid during the MS-DOS days, I used to go to all the computer stores and type: FORMAT C: on every PC
    in Terminal command to reformat a drive in X? Comment by kestral December 2001
  • I don't see why this is an issue at all - I have an iBook 500 with a supported graphics card and it's STILL slow. Supporting older graphics cards would be like re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
    in Confirmed: Older graphics card not supported by OSX Comment by kestral December 2001
  • I have to say, a huge problem I find difficult is that even with native apps, they aren't ported over very well. For example, Office X is glacial in X compared to Office 2001 in OS 9. VirtualPC 5 in X doesn't run as well as in OS 9, I know a lot o…
    in People switching back to OS 9? Comment by kestral December 2001
  • I'm running on an iBook 500 mhz G3 w/320 RAM. I've been 90% in OS X over the past month, but switched back to 9 today just to do "one quick thing", but I find myself wanting to stay here. OS 9 is obviously much much faster (in fact, OS X is downri…
    in People switching back to OS 9? Comment by kestral December 2001
  • [quote]Originally posted by BuonRotto: What advantage does SQL have over the Be system of MIME data, or Apple's HFS+? Read this story comparing BeOS and Mac OS X for what I mean:
    in What fixes/additions would you most like to see in OS 10.2? Comment by kestral December 2001
  • An SQL-based file system that can handle metadata as well (or even better) than BeOS. See Scott Hacker's comparison of BeOS to OS X to see what I mean.
    in What fixes/additions would you most like to see in OS 10.2? Comment by kestral December 2001
  • You know what would be great, if they dropped that stupid dongle protection. So many times I left my dongle on my USB hub on my way to band rehearsal and I had to drive back for it.
    in Logic 6 !!! Comment by kestral January 2003
  • Surprised that no one asked the big question - will there be an upgrade fee for Logic 5 users and if so, how much? Glad I didn't get my 5.0 upgrade yet. Still using 4.8.1.
    in Logic 6 !!! Comment by kestral January 2003
  • Crashbase is for kids. Real musicians use Logic.
    in Cubase for OSX released! Comment by kestral November 2002
  • Long time user of Internet Explorer. Never thought I'd ever switch. Tried Netscape 7, Chimera, iCab, Omniweb. They were ok. But when a friend showed me Opera, I was amazed. Have switched to Opera now. It makes my 500 mhz (66 mhz bus) iBook act…
    in Loving Opera! Comment by kestral November 2002
  • Just to add to the list of machines, my iBook 500 mhz (66 mhz bus) gets me 4-5 Platniumverbs running Logic 4.8.1. It'd be great if someone kept a master list of this on a site, and people could add to it. Would also love to see a track count l…
    in Logic Performance Thread Comment by kestral October 2002