[G4] X upgrade - Not happy

[DILLOMAN at aol.com]

Hey guys, even on my home iMac (bondi G3/400 iForce) I've noticed a remarkable improvement in speed - especially on our office Macs (G4/450mp & G4/1ghzMP).  

However, we did have a major slowdown after we installed the HP drivers for our peripherals, a Printer & a Scanner.  Whew, 3 hours to print a picture, and the whole system was slow.  Even HP says they're working with Apple for a fix. 

My question to you gentlemen is: do you maybe have a peripheral device that might be slowing your systems down???

Our G4/450MP has never run faster - or more reliably than it is now... I just can't believe you have speed complaints  (I'm not nagging or ragging, I'm in amazement ).

anyway my 2¢

1) David Crandon <tdc at attbi.com> writes:

>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.
>
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2) >"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)?

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