[DuoList] Installing OS 9.2 on pb 2400

[Andrew Holst]

I just wanted to say that I had one with 9.2 but after a while the P-book 
started to crash way too often. So I backed everything upp and installed 9.1 
and everything was good again

>From: Greg Glazier <2400C_doc at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: "A place to discuss Apple's sub-portable computers." 
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>To: "A place to discuss Apple's sub-portable computers." 
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>Subject: Re: [DuoList] Installing OS 9.2 on pb 2400
>Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:05:12 -0700
>
>
>On Nov 26, 2004, at 9:27 AM, Sid Barras wrote:
>
>>I bought one recently that had OS 9.2 already installed, and it seems to 
>>run fine; in fact maybe even a bit zippier than OS 9.1. And am I mistaken 
>>in thinking that 9.2 might have better native support for USB type 
>>devices? (The machine is cardbus enabled, and I do use USB printers and 
>>stuff. But I would like it to run just a bit faster, and I've already got 
>>the 96mb RAM chip installed.
>>
>>I believe that one needs a utility program to help enable the 9.2 OS to be 
>>installed, but I am unable to find anything that looks like that on this 
>>machine that has the 9.2 installed, so I assume it runs in the background 
>>or goes away once the software is installed.
>>
>>Would it be a worthwhile installation, or is it going to consume 
>>unecessary precious RAM? (I do have RAM doubler installed too...)
>>
>>Thanks for any info.
>>
>
>9.2 won't run anything any faster than 9.1 on a 2400C. The only difference 
>is that 9.2 improved performance in the Classic environment of Mac OS X. If 
>you're not running OS X, (or even if you *are*) don't worry about it.
>
>Life's too short. :-)
>
>--
>Greg Glazier
>The 2400C Doc
>
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