[G4] X upgrade - Not happy

[David Crandon]

Yeah, it's sort of a bummer. But, to be honest. OSX is slower than OS9
(we are talking about normal type Finder functions here). Nothing you do
will make it as fast as OS9. Even if you bought a new Dual 1.25 MHz G4,
running OSX on it would still feel slower than OS9 on your 450.

Other than what you've mentioned, the two things I've done to speed
things up a little bit more are:

1.	Faster hard drive. I bought a Western Digital 120 gig drive with the
8Meg cache from Fry's for $100 after rebates and noticed a little
snappier performance.

2.	Used Nortons Speed Disk to defrag/optimize using the OSX profile.
I've used Speed Disk for years on OS9 without ever noticing much of an
improvement. With the OSX profile, I noticed a defintate, but small, improvement.

David Crandon

"Rosenberger, Anthony B. (Tony)" wrote:
> 
> I recently upgraded from 9 to jaguar on my G4 Sawtooth 450 (768 meg ram) and
> I am not happy with the performance I am getting from it.  OS 9 ran so fast
> on it, but x is rather slow.  I want to stay with X because I love the
> stability, security, and look of X but don't know if I can live with the
> performance.  I have tried system optimizer x, mox optimize, macjanitor,
> moving the swap file to a different drive, increasing prority of programs I
> use, etc...but I still cannot get it to perform anywhere near as fast as 9
> did.  I understand that X has a lot more processes running, but this is
> rediculous.  I don't understand how they can sell it as an upgrade for G3's
> (B&W, imac, etc) because it has to be unbearably slow on them.  Do you guys
> have any ideas on how to speed it up (unix commands, tweaks, etc)?  I went
> out and bought an ATI radeon so I could use quartz extreme, and didn't
> notice much of a difference.  I would like to tweak the services that I am
> not using and disable them, but don't know which ones to turn off.  Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.  Also, please share your experiences and
> opinions about OS X's performance on G3's and G4's that are not the brand
> new fastest ones.  Thanks All.
> 
> T. Rosenberger
> 
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